Use of Weapons, Iain M. Banks
Use of Weapons, Iain M. Banks
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Use of Weapons

Author: Iain M. Banks

Series: Culture

Narrator: Peter Kenny

Unabridged: 13 hr 29 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Orbit

Published: 04/02/2013

Synopsis

The third entry in the critically acclaimed Culture series, from British Science Fiction author, Iain M. Banks. 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.The woman known as Diziet Sma had plucked him from obscurity and pushed him towards his present eminence, but despite all their dealings she did not know him as well as she thought. The drone known as Skaffen-Amtiskaw knew both of these people. It had once saved the woman's life by massacring her attackers in a particularly bloody manner. It believed the man to be a lost cause. But not even its machine could see the horrors in his past. Ferociously intelligent, both witty and horrific, Use of Weapons is a masterpiece of science fiction. The Culture Series
Consider Phlebas
The Player of Games
Use of Weapons
The State of the Art
ExcessionInversions
Look to Windward Matter
Surface Detail
The Hydrogen Sonata

About Iain M. Banks

Iain Banks (1954-2013) came to widespread and controversial public notice with the publication of his first novel, The Wasp Factory, in 1984. Consider Phlebas, his first science fiction novel, was published under the name Iain M. Banks in 1987 and began his celebrated ten-book Culture series. He is acclaimed as one of the most powerful, innovative and exciting writers of his generation.

Reviews

Goodreads review by mark on January 25, 2018

WATCH OUT, SPOILERS! but I will try to keep things vague. the name of the game is Influence. you're a good progressive super-society, you don't want to interfere too much, just enough, in the small but important ways that will put this little not-so-super-society onto the right path. on the path towa......more

Goodreads review by Manny on November 09, 2009

I'd prefer to sit on the floor, thanks. No, really! I'll feel more comfortable that way. I'm sorry? Oh, just something I read. It doesn't matter. To be honest, I'd rather not talk about it.......more

Goodreads review by Bradley on February 09, 2017

This is a rather surprising novel. I mean, on the one hand, it is filled with glorious ultraviolence, satisfying all atavistic tendencies, but on the other hand, it's almost poetry, devoted to all the ideals that the Culture is known for. Peace, objectivism, minimalistic good, and respect. Where doe......more

Goodreads review by Dirk on November 15, 2021

The Minds did not assume such distinctions; to them, there was no cut-off between the two. Tactics cohered into strategy, strategy disintegrated into tactics, in the sliding scale of their dialectical moral algebra. It was all more than they ever expected the mammal brain to cope with. Okay, so this......more

Goodreads review by Tim on April 20, 2008

Probably Bank's best science fiction novel and one of his best works generally. Cheradinine Zakalwe, Diziet Sma and Skaffen Amiskaw are, together, his most interesting group of characters. The structure of this novel makes it worthy of note on its own. Written in interwoven chapters, it is made up o......more

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