Books by Iain M. Banks

Use of Weapons (A Culture Novel Book 3)

by Iain M. Banks

(4,926 reviews)

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... See More

Transition

by Iain M. Banks

(1,110 review)

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... See More

Against a Dark Background

by Iain M. Banks

(1,678 review)

From science fiction master Iain M. Banks comes a standalone adventure of one woman on the run in an isolated galaxy. Sharrow was once the leader of a personality-attuned combat team in one of the sporadic little... See More

The Hydrogen Sonata (A Culture Novel Book 9)

by Iain M. Banks

(5,349 reviews)

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... See More

Consider Phlebas (A Culture Novel Book 1)

by Iain M. Banks

(10,962 reviews)

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... See More

Look to Windward (A Culture Novel Book 6)

by Iain M. Banks

(4,062 reviews)

This "sophisticated space opera" (The New York Times), filled with suspense and humor, masterfully explores the horrors of war -- from the acclaimed author of The Wasp Factory. The Twin Novae battle had been one of the last... See More

The Quarry

by Iain M. Banks

(1,400 review)

Eighteen-year-old Kit is weird: big, strange, odd, socially disabled, on a spectrum that stretches from "highly gifted" at one end, to "nutter" at the other. At least Kit knows who his father is; he and Guy live together in... See More

Matter (A Culture Novel Book 7)

by Iain M. Banks

(3,624 reviews)

A novel of dazzling wit and serious purpose. An extraordinary feat of storytelling and breathtaking invention on a grand scale, it is a tour de force from a writer who has turned science fiction on its head. "Unexpectedly... See More

The Player of Games (A Culture Novel Book 2)

by Iain M. Banks

(8,445 reviews)

The Culture -- a human/machine symbiotic society -- has thrown up many great Game Players, and one of the greatest is Gurgeh Jernau Morat Gurgeh. The Player of Games. Master of every board, computer and strategy. Bored... See More

Burning Brightly: 50 Years of Novacon

by Ian Whates

(35 reviews)

An anthology of rare reprints and original fiction from some of the biggest names in British Science Fiction. Includes "The Spheres" by Iain M. Banks, a story that has never been collected or reprinted since it first... See More

Surface Detail (A Culture Novel Book 8)

by Iain M. Banks

(3,451 reviews)

Surface Detail is among Iain M. Banks' Culture novels, a breathtaking achievement from a writer whose body of work is without parallel in the modern history of science fiction. It begins in the realm of the Real, where... See More

Inversiones (Solaris ficción nº 81) (Spanish Edition)

by Iain M. BANKS

En el palacio de invierno, la nueva doctora del Rey tiene más enemigos de los que cree. Pero, por otra parte, también dispone de remedios insólitos que ellos desconocen. En otro palacio tras las montañas, el... See More

Excesión (Solaris ficción nº 44) (Spanish Edition)

by Iain M. BANKS

(8 reviews)

En la Cultura, una vasta sociedad de dimensiones galácticas y protegida y custodiada por las Mentes, la forma más avanzada de inteligencia artificial, nada parece capaz de poner en peligro la placentera existencia de los... See More

The State of the Art (Culture)

by Iain M. Banks

(1,615 review)

From New York Times bestselling and modern master of science fiction, Iain M. Banks, The State of the Art is the acclaimed collection of Banks's short fiction. "Banks is a phenomenon... writing pure science fiction of a... See More

The Algebraist (Culture)

by Iain M. Banks

(16 reviews)

As complex, turbulent and spectacular as the gas giant on which it is set, this novel from Iain M. Banks is space opera on a truly epic scale. "An enormously enjoyable book, full of wonderful aliens, a sense of wonder and... See More