Inversions - by Iain M Banks (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Originally published: London: Orbit, 1998.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>Iain M. Banks, the international bestselling author of <i>The Player of Games</i> and <i>Consider Phlebas, </i> is a true original, a literary visionary whose brilliant speculative fiction has transported us into worlds of unbounded imagination. Now, in his acclaimed new novel, Banks presents an engrossing portrait of an alien world, and of two very different people bound by a startling and mysterious secret. <br> On a backward world with six moons, an alert spy reports on the doings of one Dr. Vosill, who has mysteriously become the personal physician to the king despite being a foreigner and, even more unthinkably, a woman. Vosill has more enemies than she first realizes. But then she also has more remedies in hand than those who wish her ill can ever guess. <br> Elsewhere, in another palace across the mountains, a man named DeWar serves as chief bodyguard to the Protector General of Tassasen, a profession he describes as the business of assassinating assassins. DeWar, too, has his enemies, but his foes strike more swiftly, and his means of combating them are more direct. <br> No one trusts the doctor, and the bodyguard trusts no one, but is there a hidden commonality linking their disparate histories? Spiraling around a central core of mystery, deceit, love, and betrayal. <i>Inversions</i> is a dazzling work of science fiction from a versatile and imaginative author writing at the height of his remarkable powers<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><i>Locus</i> A talent to be reckoned with.<br><br><i>Los Angeles Times</i> Banks never does the same thing twice. But he always does it sublimely.<br><br><i>SFX</i> Iain Banks is a tricky fellow. Watch carefully as he assures you there's nothing up his sleeve.<br><br><i>The Detroit News</i> A genuine and original talent.<br><br>David Brin author of the Uplift series Iain M. Banks has a deep grasp of story, character, and the irony of this strange life that humans are born into. He is a master at portraying the terror and poignant joy that swirl whenever people open their horizons and start to see their dreams come true.<br><br>Vernor Vinge author of <i>A Fire Upon the Deep</i> <i>Inversions</i> is a magical interplay of viewpoint and simplicity. At different levels we find the romance of medieval royalty, the horrors that lie below it, and the prospect of a civilization transforming itself into something marvelously better.<br><br>Vernor Vinge Iain M. Banks' novels are subtle and spectacular.<br><br>William Gibson author of <i>Neuromancer</i> Banks is a phenomenon. Wildly successful, fearlessly creative!<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Iain M. Banks, </b> one of the United Kingdom's bestselling authors of science fiction, has written such highly regarded novels as <i>Excession, Feersum Endjinn, Use of Weapons, The State of the Art, </i> and <i>Against a Dark Background.</i> As "Iain Banks" he also writes mainstream novels, including <i>The Wasp Factory</i> and <i>A Song of Stone.</i> He lives in Scotland.
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