Russell's ebook Library
Against a Dark Background
Iain M. Banks
Sharrow was once the leader of a personality-attuned combat team in one of the sporadic little commercial wars in the civilization based around the planet Golter. Now she is hunted by the Huhsz, a religious cult which believes that she is the last ob...
The Algebraist
Iain M. Banks
It is 4034 AD. Humanity has made it to the stars.Fassin Taak, a Slow Seer at the Court of the Nasqueron Dwellers, will be fortunate if he makes it to the end of the year.The Nasqueron Dwellers inhabit a gas giant on the outskirts of the galaxy, in a ...
Consider Phlebas
Iain M. Banks
The Culture [1]: In the midst of a war between two galactic empires, a shape-changing agent of the Iridans undertakes a clandestine mission to a forbidden planet in search of an intelligent, fugitive machine whose actions could alter the course of th...
Excession
Iain M. Banks
The Culture [5]: Diplomat Byr Genar-Hofoen has been selected by the Culture to undertake a delicate and dangerous mission. The Department of Special Circumstances - the Culture's espionage and dirty tricks section - has sent him off to investigate a ...
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...And Bascule the Teller, in search of an ant, is about to enter the c...
The Hydrogen Sonata
Iain M. Banks
The Culture [10]: The Scavenger species are circling. It is, truly, the End Days for the Gzilt civilization. An ancient people, organized on military principles and yet almost perversely peaceful, the Gzilt helped set up the Culture ten thousand year...
Inversions
Iain M. Banks
The Culture [6]: A doctor's devotion to her king and to her profession embroil her in a web of court intrigue and murder as she strives to preserve the health and well-being of the king she has come to love.On the other side of the world, a general's...
Look to Windward
Iain M. Banks
The Culture [7]: The Twin Novae battle had been one of the last of the Idiran war, and one of the most horrific: desperate to avert their inevitable defeat, the Idirans had induced not one but two suns to explode, snuffing out worlds and biospheres t...
Matter
Iain M. Banks
The Culture [8]: In a world renowned even within a galaxy full of wonders, a crime within a war. For one brother it means a desperate flight, and a search for the one - maybe two - people who could clear his name. For his brother it means a life liv...
The Player of Games
Iain M. Banks
The Culture [2]: The Culture - a human/machine symbiotic society - has thrown up many great Game Players, and one of the greatest is Gurgeh.Jernau Morat Gurgeh. The Player of Games. Master of every board, computer and strategy. Bored with success, Gu...
The State of the Art
Iain M. Banks
The Culture [4]: The first ever collection of Iain Banks's short fiction, this volume includes the acclaimed novella, The State of the Art. This is a striking addition to the growing body of Culture lore, and adds definition and scale to the previous...
Surface Detail
Iain M. Banks
The Culture [9]: It begins in the realm of the Real, where matter still matters. It begins with a murder. And it will not end until the Culture has gone to war with death itself. Lededje Y'breq is one of the Intagliated, her marked body bearing witne...
Use of Weapons
Iain M. Banks
The Culture [3]: 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 ...
