Iain M. Banks

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....

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....

For short-lived 'quick' races like humans, space is dominated by the complicated, grandiose Mercatoria, whose rule is both military and religious....

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....

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

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

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

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

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