Iain Banks: 45 books

The first book in Iain M. Banks's seminal science fiction series, The Culture. Consider Phlebas introduces readers to the utopian conglomeration of human and alien races that explores the nature of war, morality, and the limitless bounds of mankind's imagination. The war raged across the galaxy....

Les Gziltes, une civilisation galactique alliée de la Culture depuis dix mille ans mais qui a choisi de ne pas la rejoindre, ont pris la décision collective de suivre la voie empruntée par des millions d'autres civilisations avancées : la Sublimation. Quitter l'espace normal et rejoindre un niveau...

Les Enfers virtuels, ici divisé en deux tomes, est le septième roman dans cette collection qui appartienne au cycle de la Culture. Les six précédents sont Une forme de guerre, L'Homme des jeux, L'Usage des armes, Excession, Le Sens du vent et Trames. Situés dans le même univers, ils peuvent...

Gurgeh est l'un des plus célèbres joueurs de jeux que la Culture ait jamais connus. Il joue, gagne, enseigne, théorise. La Culture est une immense société galactique, pacifiste, multiforme, anarchiste, tolérante, éthique et cynique. Elle est composée d'humains, d'Intelligences Artificielles...

Cheradenine Zakalwe - ou du moins l'homme qui se fait appeler ainsi - est l'un des agents les plus efficaces de la Culture. Et Diziet Sma, éminente figure de la Culture, l'utilise à des fins mystérieuses, quelquefois paradoxales. Dans le cadre de Circonstances spéciales, une branche de Contact. Qu'est-ce...

Shoreline of Infinity Science Fiction Magazine is published in Edinburgh, Scotland. It features short fiction, articles, poetry, art, reviews and more. The first issue was published in the summer of 2015; already we have published some astonishingly good stories from new and more well known writers,...

Une esclave en quête de vengeance, un voyage à travers la galaxie, la description d'inimaginables supplices, une guerre dans le monde virtuel... Banks noue tous les fils de son intrigue et conclut en fanfare ce septième opus du cycle de la Culture. Le cycle de la Culture (L'Usage des armes,...

The Twin Novae battle had been one of the last of the Idiran war, and one of the most horrific: desperate to avert their inevitable defeat, the Idirans had induced not one but two suns to explode, snuffing out worlds and biospheres teeming with sentient life. They were attacks of incredible proportion...

There is a world that hangs suspended between triumph and catastrophe, between the dismantling of the Wall and the fall of the Twin Towers, frozen in the shadow of suicide terrorism and global financial collapse. Such a world requires a firm hand and a guiding light. But does it need the Concern:...

In a world renowned even within a galaxy full of wonders, a crime within a war. For one man it means a desperate flight, and a search for the one - maybe two - people who could clear his name. For his brother it means a life lived under constant threat of treachery and murder. And for their sister,...

The New York Times bestselling Culture novel... The Scavenger species are circling. It is, truly, provably, the End Days for the Gzilt civilization. An ancient people, organized on military principles and yet almost perversely peaceful, the Gzilt helped set up the Culture ten thousand...

It begins in the realm of the Real, where matter still matters. It begins with a murder. And it will not end until the Culture has gone to war with death itself. Lededje Y'breq is one of the Intagliated, her marked body bearing witness to a family shame, her life belonging to...

The man known as Cheradenine Zakalwe was one of Special Circumstances' foremost agents, changing the destiny of planets to suit the Culture through intrigue, dirty tricks and military action. The woman known as Diziet Sma had plucked him from obscurity and pushed him towards his present eminence,...

Sharrow was once the leader of a personality-attuned combat team in one of the sporadic little commercial wars in the civilization based around the planet Golter. Now she is hunted by the Huhsz, a religious cult which believes that she is the last obstacle before the faith's apotheosis, and her only...