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The novels of Iain M. Banks have forever changed the face of modern science fiction. His
Culture books combine breathtaking imagination with exceptional storytelling  and have secured
his reputation as one of the most extraordinary and influential writers in the genre.    'Banks
is a phenomenon' William Gibson   The "War in Heaven"  a simulated war game  rages between
civilisations. Its virtual battles have been fought for decades  and the victors will decide
the fate of the digital Hells - torturous artificial afterlives with horrors beyond
imagination.  In the Sichultian Enablement  Y'breq is one of the Intagliated  her marked body
bearing witness to a family shame  her life belonging to a man whose lust for power is without
limit.  As the virtual war threatens to spill into the Real  Y'breq is willing to risk
everything for her freedom - but she'll need the Culture  and its help comes at a price. The
Culture is going to war with death itself.  Praise for the Culture series:   'Epic in scope 
ambitious in its ideas and absorbing in its execution' Independent on Sunday   'Banks has
created one of the most enduring and endearing visions of the future' Guardian   'Jam-packed
with extraordinary invention' Scotsman   'Compulsive reading' Sunday Telegraph    The Culture
series:  Consider Phlebas The Player of Games Use of Weapons Excession Inversions Look to
Windward Matter Surface Detail The Hydrogen Sonata   The State of the Art    Other books by
Iain M. Banks:   Against a Dark Background Feersum Endjinn The Algebraist   Also now available:
The Culture: The Drawings - an extraordinary collection of original illustrations faithfully
reproduced from sketchbooks Banks kept in the 1970s and 80s  depicting the ships  habitats 
geography  weapons and language of Banks' Culture series of novels in incredible detail.

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