-
Feersum Endjinn - Iain M. Banks
Count Sessine is about to die for the very last time ...Chief Scientist Gadfium is about to receive the mysterious message she has been waiting for from the Plain of Sliding Stones... -
Excession - Iain M. Banks
Two and a half millennia ago, the artifact appeared in a remote corner of space, beside a trillion-year-old dying sun from a different universe. It was a perfect black-body... -
-
Crucifixion River - Marcia Muller; Bill Pronzini
EDITORIAL REVIEW: In this Spur Award-winning story, a Pinkerton detective, a couple on the run, a wanted man, and a traveling salesman with mysterious wares all converge on the ban... -
Consider Phlebas - Iain M. Banks
SUMMARY:"Dazzlingly original." -- Daily Mail"Gripping, touching and funny." -- TLSThe war raged across the galaxy. Billions had died, billions more were doomed. Moons, plane... -
Against a Dark Background - Iain M. Banks
From Library JournalOn the run from a cult of intergalactic religious fanatics who want her death, the Lady Sharrow emerges from retirement to seek out a powerful artifact that may...