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‘Staggering imaginative energy’
Independent
‘Banks has rewritten the libretto for the whole space-opera genre’
The Times
‘A dizzying adventure’
Daily Mail
‘Gripping, touching and funny’
TLS
‘The story is vital and urgent and has a brilliantly subtle resolution... wildly enjoyable’
Interzone
‘Explosive but tender’
Sunday Times
‘Thrilling, affecting and comic... probably the finest science fiction he has written to date’
New Scientist
A novel of extraordinary imagination, richness and energy,
Excession is lain M. Banks at his magnificent best.
INVERSIONS
Iain M. Banks
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 another palace across the mountains, in the service of the regicidal Protector General, the chief bodyguard too has his enemies. But his enemies strike more swiftly, and his means of combating them are more traditional.
Spiralling around a central core of secrecy, deceit, love and betrayal, Inversions is a spectacular work of science fiction, brilliantly told and wildly imaginative, from an author who has set genre fiction alight.
‘A fantastic, awe-inspiring book . . . I can’t imagine anyone not being won over by this deeply entertaining, thought-provoking and humane story’
Express
‘Taut, hilarious and wicked’
Mail on Sunday
‘Compulsive Banksian reading... thoughtful, intelligently bloody stuff’
SFX
‘Captivating... incisive... as sublime as ever’
Time Out