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Banks, Iain A Song of Stone
Abacus 2003 0-349-11011-5 / 9780349110110 Paperback
Paperback in good condition."The war is ending, perhaps ended. . . . For the castle and its occupants the troubles are just beginning. Armed gangs roam its lawless land where each farm and house supports a column of dark smoke. Taking to the roads with the other refugees, anonymous in their raggedness, seems safer than remaining in the ancient keep. But the lieutenant of an outlaw band has other ideas, and the castle becomes the focus for a dangerous game of desire, deceit and death. Combining a gripping narrative with a soaring, voyaging imagination, A Song of Stone addresses timeless questions of truth, betrayal, duty and loyalty, weaving them round a complex plot into a seamless, spellbinding whole.".
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Banks, Iain Bridge, The
Futura Pubns. 1989 0-7088-8303-6 / 9780708883037 Paperback
Paperback in poor condition but all pages correct and none loose.The man who wakes up in the world of a bridge has amnesia, and his doctor doesn't seem to want to cure him. Does it matter? Exploring the bridge occupies most of his days. But at night there are his dreams. Dreams in which desperate men drive sealed carriages across barren mountains to a bizarre rendezvous.
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Banks, Iain Canal Dreams
Doubleday 1991 0-385-41814-0 / 9780385418140 1st Edition Hardcover
First US edition. Hardback with D/J like new. Cover Art and Design By Bascove (illustrator).From Publishers WeeklyBecause she is afraid to fly during a time of international tensions, famous Japanese cellist Hisako Onoda boards a tanker en route to her concert in Rotterdam. When a conflict erupts and the Panama Canal is closed, the ship is forced to drop anchor in Gatun Lake. A guerrilla faction takes the passengers and crew captive, Hisako is raped, and we watch as the sensitive musician metamorphoses into a grenade-toting avenging warrior. This stunning, hallucinatory, semi-surreal fable pits an artistic, precariously balanced sensibility against a world of brutal political forces. Among the ship's passengers, all taken hostage by the People's Liberation Front, are a South African engineer, an erudite Egyptian and Hisako's wimpy young French boyfriend. Banks ( The Wasp Factory ) doesn't do much with these characters. His wrenching story, which can be read as a parable of the feminine principle reasserting itself and taking revenge on earth-destroying males, derives its power from the exploration of Hisako's mental states, her violent nightmares and her flashbacks to Japan, where she became a prodigy, strove to please her mother and missed a father she never knew, dead from radiation sickness in the aftermath of Hiroshima.
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Banks, Iain Consider Phlebas
Futura Pubns. 1988 0-7088-3707-7 / 9780708837078 Paperback
Paperback in average condition. All pages tight.A space opera of stunning power and awesome imagination from one of the most talented writers of his generation.
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Banks, Iain Excession
Time Warner Books Uk 1997 1-85723-457-X / 9781857234572 Paperback
Paperback in good condition.AmazonIt's not easy to disturb a mega-utopia as vast as the one Iain M. Banks hascreated in his popular Culture series, where life is devoted to fun and ultra-high-tech is de rigueur. But more than two millennia ago the appearanceand disappearance of a star older than the universe caused quite a stir. Now the mystery is back, and the key to solving it lies in the mind of the person who witnessed the first disturbance 2,500 years ago. But she's dead,and getting her to cooperate may not be altogether easy.From Kirkus ReviewsFrom versatile Scottish writer Banks, another sf yarn about the tolerant, diverse, far-future Culture (The Player of Games, 1989, etc.). The Culture is subtly controlled by prodigiously intelligent artificial Minds, who, Banks intimates, spend most of their spare time navel-gazing. Here, a huge, enigmatic object referred to as the Excession appears in space and interacts with the Culture's energy grid in ways previously considered impossible. Diplomat Byr Genar-Hofoen of the Department of Special Circumstances is sent to investigate--but, sidetracked by beautiful, talented, spoiled-brat operative Ulver Seich and by old flame Dajeil Gelian, it will be a long time before he draws near the object. Meanwhile, certain Minds occupying a vast array of self-controlled spaceships suspect that still other Minds are involved in a conspiracy but to what end? With the Culture thus distracted by the Excession, the cruel, dangerously expansionist alien Affront seize the opportunity to hijack a Culture battle fleet and start a war that they only gradually realize they've been suckered i
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Banks, Iain M. Inversions
Pocketbooks 2000 0-671-03668-8 / 9780671036683 Hardcover
Hardback with DJ - 1995 - good condition - ladylisabooks website - used books, secondhand books, out of print books, hard to find books, second-hand books, nonfiction, non-fiction books delivered world wide.First published in the U.K. in 1998, Banks's latest novel steps back from the usual grand scale and ultra high-tech of his well-known "Culture" SF series (Excession, etc.) to the intrigue-ridden courts of a politically fragmented world. In Haspidus, a woman named Vosill, a foreigner from the distantarchipelago nation of Drezen, serves as personal physician to King Quience, in spite of social mores that treat women as little more than property. Vosill's servant--actually a spy reporting to one of Quience's trusted right-hand men--finds himself doubting his master's claims that Vosill is a danger to the king, even as he uncovers evidence that suggests that Vosill is much more than she seems. Meanwhile, across the mountains, the stern warriorDeWar serves as chief bodyguard to General UrLeyn, the Prime Protector ofthe Tassasen Protectorate. His close contact with UrLeyn earns him the distrust of UrLeyn's fellow generals; those loyal to UrLeyn fear DeWar himselfcould be the perfect spy and assassin, while others worry he will discovertheir own secret plots. As conspiracies unfold and loyalties shift dangerously in both lands, the story of Vosill and DeWar and their unspoken connection unfolds with masterful subtlety. Banks's new novel should further expand his reputation for creating challenging, intelligent stories full of notable characters trapped in complex situations that have no easy solutions.From Library Jour
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Banks, Iain Walking On Glass
Abacus 1999 0-349-10178-7 / 9780349101781 Paperback
Paperback in average to good condition. 1999 reprint Abacus. ladylisabooks.Banks received rave reviews from critics in his native England and the U.S. for his debut in The Wasp Factory. His second novel is also an extraordinary feat, terrifying and baffling, going far beyond the bounds of fiction as it's usually defined. There are really three separate stories here. The first concerns nice young Londoner Graham Park, in love with Sara ffitch (sic), whom he meets through his gay friend, Slater. The latter's wild ideas provide needed comedy in an otherwise brooding atmosphere, as Graham worriesover whether he can win the mysterious Sara from her biker boyfriend. Thenext story tells of Steven Grout, a laborer who can't keep a job because ofhis disruptive temper. The paranoid Steven believes "They" are out to gethim via lethal microwaves. The scene is laid in a surreal castle where twoprisoners, Quiss and Ajayi, are being held for failing as soldiers in the War Against Banality and Interest. The pair, required to answer riddles to win release from this science-fiction hell, miss every time. Banks connectsthe entirely different events in the novel's closing pages.
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Banks, Iain Walking on Glass
Futura 1986 0-7088-2774-8 / 9780708827741 Paperback
Paperback in poor condition, all pages tight and readable but yellowing andsome creasing to spine and cover."A feast of horrors, variously spiced with incest, conspiracy and cheerful descriptions of torture ... fine writing" The Times.
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