Use of Weapons [Paperback]

** 'There is now no British SF writer to whose work I look forward with greater keenness' THE TIMES ** 'In many ways his best yet... rich, vivid and great fun.' VECTOR ** 'At last SF as it should be written!' CRITICAL WAVE ** 'To say thatv Banks us Britain's best writer of science fiction would be to understate the case. He's simply one of our best novelists, whatever the genre. Read him.' BOOK PEOPLE

A spellbinding journey to the far future world of The Culture, by the author of "Consider Phlebas" and "The Player of Games". --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Praise for Iain M. Banks

‘Banks is a phenomenon: the wildly successful, fearlessly creative author of brilliant and disturbing non-genre novels, he’s equally at home writing pure science fiction of a peculiarly gnarly energy and elegance’ WILLIAM GIBSON

‘There is now no British SF writer to whose work I look forward to with greater keenness’ THE TIMES

‘Few of us have been exposed to a talent so manifest and of such extraordinary breadth’ THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF SCIENCE FICTION

‘Poetic, humorous, baffling, terrifying, sexy - the books of Iain M. Banks are all these things and more’ NME

Also by Iain M. Banks

Consider Phlebas The Player of Games The State of the Art Against a Dark Background Feersum Endjinn Excession Inversions Look to Windward --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

Iain Banks came to widespread and controversial public notice with the publication of his first novel, THE WASP FACTORY, in 1984. He has since gained enormous popular and critical acclaim for both his mainstream and his science fiction novels.