Iain M. Banks

Two and a half millennia ago in a remote corner of space, beside a trillion-year-old dying sun from a different universe, the artifact appeared. It was a perfect black-body sphere, and it did nothing. Then it disappeared. Now it is back.

The war raged across the galaxy. Billions had died, billions more were doomed....

Consider Phlebas: Booktrack Edition adds an immersive musical soundtrack to your audiobook listening experience! Consider Phlebas introduces listeners to the utopian conglomeration of human and alien races that explores the nature of war and morality....

The Culture - a human/machine symbiotic society - has thrown up many great Game Players, and one of the greatest is Gurgeh....

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....

It begins in the realm of the Real, where matter still matters. And it begins with a murder....

Count Sessine is about to die for the very last time....

The dazzling new Culture novel from a modern master of science fiction....

In a world renowned, even within a galaxy full of wonders, a crime occurs within a war....

This is a striking addition to the body of Culture lore, and adds definition and scale to the previous works by using the Earth of 1977 as contrast. The stories in the collection range from science fiction to horror, dark-coated fantasy to morality tale....

The man known as Cheradenine Zakalwe was one of Special Circumstances' foremost agents....

In the winter palace, the King's new physician has more enemies than she at first realises. But then she also has more remedies to hand than those who wish her ill can know about....

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 who could clear his name....

The Scavenger species are circling. It is, truly, provably, the End Days for the Gzilt civilization....

Two and a half millennia ago, the artifact appeared in a remote corner of space....

It is 4034 AD. Humanity has made it to the stars. Fassin Taak, a Slow Seer at the Court of the Nasqueron Dwellers, will be fortunate if he makes it to the end of the year....

It was one of the less glorious incidents of a long-ago war. It led to the destruction of two suns and the billions of lives they supported....

The war raged across the galaxy. Billions had died, billions more were doomed. Moons, planets, the very stars themselves, faced destruction....

The Culture - a human/machine symbiotic society - has thrown up many great Game Players, and one of the greatest is Gurgeh....

It is 4034 AD. Humanity has made it to the stars but Fassin Taak, a Slow Seer at the Court of the Nasqueron Dwellers, will be fortunate if he makes it to the end of the year.