“Pyrotechnic, action-filled, satiric, outlandish, deep and frivolous all at once, these bravura space operas… juggle galactic scale… with a revelatory energy rarely matched in speculative fiction.” “An exquisitely riotous tour de force of the imagination which writes its own rules simply for the pleasure of breaking them.” They’re about faith in the future, about the belief that societies can make sense of themselves, can have fun doing so, can live by Good Works, and can do so in circumstances far removed from our own little circle of western civilization.” “The Culture Books are not technological just-so stories. “Banks writes with a sophistication that will surprise anyone unfamiliar with modern science fiction.” “Poetic, humorous, baffling, terrifying, sexy-the books of Iain M. “There is now no British SF writer to whose work I look forward with greater keenness.” “Banks is a phenomenon… writing pure science fiction of a peculiarly gnarly energy and elegance.”
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