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Buy this book on-line BANKS**, IAIN M[enzies]: : INVERSIONS.**LONDON.ORBIT,1998. ISBN 1857236262.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[He wrote mainstream fiction under the name Iain Banks and science fiction as Iain M. Banks,including the initial of his adopted middle name Menzies.] FINE/FINE. No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj.Not for sale in America,or not yet published there yet (then - 1998).
Sixth book in Banks' "The Culture" sequence.
Iain Banks came to widespread and controversial public notice with the publication of his first novel,'THE WASP FACTORY' in 1984.He has then since gained enormous popular and critical acclaim for both his mainstream and his science fiction novels.Sadly no longer with us. Died June 2013.
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UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[He wrote mainstream fiction under the name Iain Banks and science fiction as Iain M. Banks,including the initial of his adopted middle name Menzies.Not for sale in America,or not yet published there (then - 1998).] FINE+/FINE+.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,glossy,colour pictorial wrap-around illustrated dw/dj by Mark Salwoski; with white embossed and printed lettering to front panel,white printed letters to spine/backstrip and rear panel; with negligible shelf-wear,bumping or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present. Top+fore-edges with very little,if any,toning - certainly nowhere near to ubiquitous degree that these publisher's (ORBIT) hardback titles are prone to - contents bright,tight and very clean - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread,apart from my own collation.Publisher's bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,original plain black cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt lettering to spine/ backstrip and immaculate plain black endpapers. UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,8-336pp [paginated] includes 24 chapter and an epilogue, plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,a dedication,and 24 identical b/w illustrated chapter headpieces with alternating reversal of background from white to black and back; plus [unpaginated] a Note on the text,and both prologue+epilogue unnumbered.An exceptional example in excellent condition.
Some years ago,rocks and fire fell from the sky and the old Empire fell with them.In the lands released from that crushing hegemony,a new world order is about to emerge.Two people in particular can see all this in a wider context. 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.
Both the doctor and the bodyguard have at least one person they care for deeply and who cares for them.None of them,however,can risk saying so.
This is the story of two stories.Spiralling round a central core of secrecy,deceit,love and betrayal - and linked more closely than even those involved can know - each climbs to its own devastating climax.
'Inversions' is a dazzling work of science fiction from an author writing at the height of his remarkable powers.
Iain Banks came to widespread and controversial public notice with the publication of his first novel,'THE WASP FACTORY' in 1984.He has then since gained enormous popular and critical acclaim for both his mainstream and his science fiction novels. Sadly no longer with us.Died June 2013.
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Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of BANKS**, IAIN M[enzies]: : INVERSIONS.**. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. BANKS**, IAIN M[enzies]: : INVERSIONS.**LONDON.ORBIT.1998. ISBN 1857236262.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[He wrote mainstream fiction under the name Iain Banks and science fiction as Iain M. Banks,including the initial of his adopted middle name Menzies.Not for sale in America,or not yet published there yet (then - 1998).] FINE+/FINE+.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,glossy,colour pictorial wrap-around illustrated dw/dj by Mark Salwoski; with white embossed and printed lettering to front panel,white printed letters to the spine/backstrip and the rear panel; with negligible shelf-wear,bumping or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present. Top+fore-edges with very little,if any,toning - certainly nowhere near to the ubiquitous degree that these publisher's (ORBIT) hardback titles are prone to - contents bright,tight and very clean - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread,apart from my own collation.Publisher's bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,original plain black cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt lettering to spine/ backstrip and immaculate plain black endpapers. UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,8-336pp [paginated] includes 24 chapter and an epilogue; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,a dedication,and 24 identical b/w illustrated chapter headpieces with alternating reversal of background from white to black and back; plus [unpaginated] a Note on the text,and both prologue+epilogue unnumbered.An exceptional example in excellent condition.
Some years ago,rocks and fire fell from the sky and the old Empire fell with them.In the lands released from that crushing hegemony,a new world order is about to emerge.Two people in particular can see all this in a wider context. 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.
Both the doctor and the bodyguard have at least one person they care for deeply and who cares for them.None of them, however,can risk saying so.
This is the story of two stories.Spiralling round a central core of secrecy,deceit,love and betrayal - and linked more closely than even those involved can know - each climbs to its own devastating climax.
'Inversions' is a dazzling work of science fiction from an author writing at the height of his remarkable powers.
Iain Banks came to widespread and controversial public notice with the publication of his first novel,'THE WASP FACTORY' in 1984.He has then since gained enormous popular and critical acclaim for both his mainstream and his science fiction novels. Sadly no longer with us. Died June 2013.
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