Iain Banks
Inversions

2023 |

The novels of Iain M. Banks have forever changed the face of modern science fiction. His Culture books combine breathtaking imagination with exceptional storytelling, and have secured his reputation as one of the most extraordinary and influential writers in the genre.'Banks is a phenomenon' William Gibson In the winte…r palace, the King's new physician has more enemies than she realises. But then she also has more defences than even her most hardened adversaries could imagine.In another palace, far across the mountains, sits the regicidal Protector General. His chief bodyguard also has enemies to worry about, with the threat of treachery and assassination never far away.And beneath the surface of these feudal courts - behind the spies, murders, politics and intrigues - lies an entirely di fferent kind of threat, an entity that nobody would ever suspect.Praise for the Culture series:'Epic in scope, ambitious in its ideas and absorbing in its execution' Independent on Sunday'Banks has created one of the most enduring and endearing visions of the future' Guardian'Banks's sci-fi, at its best, is staggeringly inventive, beautifully written, dramatic and often very funny. His stories are packed with ideas, warships with minds very much of their own, alien races, charismatic drones and intergalactic politics' New Scientist'Jam-packed with extraordinary invention' Scotsman'Compulsive reading' Sunday Telegraph The Culture series:Consider PhlebasThe Player of GamesUse of WeaponsExcessionInversionsLook to WindwardMatterSurface DetailThe Hydrogen SonataThe State of the ArtOther books by Iain M. Banks:Against a Dark BackgroundFeersum EndjinnThe AlgebraistAlso now available: The Culture: The Drawings - an extraordinary collection of original illustrations faithfully reproduced from sketchbooks Banks kept in the 1970s and 80s, depicting the ships, habitats, geography, weapons and language of Banks' Culture series of novels in incredible detail. The novels of Iain M. Banks have forever changed the face of modern science fiction. His Culture books combine breathtaking imagination with exceptional storytelling, and have secured his reputation a…s one of the most extraordinary and influential writers in the genre.'Banks is a phenomenon' William Gibson In the winter palace, the King's new physician has more enemies than she realises. But then she also has more defences than even her most hardened adversaries could imagine.In another palace, far across the mountains, sits the regicidal Protector General. His chief bodyguard also has enemies to worry about, with the threat of treachery and assassination never far away.And beneath the surface of these feudal courts - behind the spies, murders, politics and intrigues - lies an entirely di fferent kind of threat, an entity that nobody would ever suspect.Praise for the Culture series:'Epic in scope, ambitious in its ideas and absorbing in its execution' Independent on Sunday'Banks has created one of the most enduring and endearing visions of the future' Guardian'Banks's sci-fi, at its best, is staggeringly inventive, beautifully written, dramatic and often very funny. His stories are packed with ideas, warships with minds very much of their own, alien races, charismatic drones and intergalactic politics' New Scientist'Jam-packed with extraordinary invention' Scotsman'Compulsive reading' Sunday Telegraph The Culture series:Consider PhlebasThe Player of GamesUse of WeaponsExcessionInversionsLook to WindwardMatterSurface DetailThe Hydrogen SonataThe State of the ArtOther books by Iain M. Banks:Against a Dark BackgroundFeersum EndjinnThe AlgebraistAlso now available: The Culture: The Drawings - an extraordinary collection of original illustrations faithfully reproduced from sketchbooks Banks kept in the 1970s and 80s, depicting the ships, habitats, geography, weapons and language of Banks' Culture series of novels in incredible detail.

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Nová

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O knize

Stav:	Nová
Vazba:	Brožovaná
Počet stran:	403
Jazyk:	anglicky
ISBN10:	0356521680
ISBN:	9780356521688
Vydání:	1
Vystaveno:	30. 5. 2025 10:19
Číslo položky:	1252514

O autorovi

Iain Banks

Iain Banks, píšící také jako Iain M. Banks byl skotský spisovatel. Psal beletrii i sci-fi a jeho knihy jsou v Čechách, na Moravě a na Slovensku hojně překládány. Prorazil už svou prvotinou Vosí továrna a do své smrti vydal dvacet sedm románů a jednu sbírku povídek. New York Times nazvaly Bankse „nejvýznamnějším autorem sci-fi současnosti“, britské The Times ho umístily v roce 2008 na seznam největších britských spisovatelů po roce 1945. Banksova matka byla profesionální krasobruslařka, jeho otec úředník u námořnictva. Rodina se původně jmenovala Banks Menzies, jeho dědeček z otcovy strany změnil pořadí na Menzies Banks. Ačkoli byl při narození zaregistrován jako Iain Banks, již od dětských let užíval Menzies jako své prostřední jméno. Ve čtrnácti letech se Banks rozhodl stát spisovatelem. O dva roky později dokončil svou první povídku. Do roku 1974 studoval ve Stirlingu filozofii, angličtinu a psychologii. Po vysoké škole pracoval jako vrátný v nemocnici, zaměstnanec, zahradník a technik. Všechna zaměstnání mu ponechávala dostatek času, aby se věnoval svým literárním ambicím. Poté stopem procestoval Evropu a pracoval jako technik pro firmu British Steel. V roce 1978 projel Spojené státy z Washingtonu do Los Angeles, krátce pracoval v Greenocku u IBM a v následujícím roce se vrátil do Londýna. Tam v roce 1980 napsal román Vosí továrna, který ho naráz proslavil po celém světě. Od té doby psal romány a příležitostně krátké příběhy, které se v Británii téměř všechny staly bestsellery. Od vydání své prvotiny žil se svou budoucí ženou Annie v Kentu, po dočasném rozchodu se v roce 1998 vrátil do Skotska. V roce 2007 oznámili manželé rozchod. V červnu 2010 se zúčastnil 20. ročníku Festivalu spisovatelů Praha. V dubnu 2013 zveřejnil Banks na svém blogu oznámení, že před nějakou dobou byla u něj diagnostikována rakovina žlučníku, která se již rozšířil...

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