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Consider Phlebas
- Culture Series, Book 1
- By: Iain M. Banks
- Narrated by: Peter Kenny
- Length: 16 hrs and 25 mins
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The war raged across the galaxy. Billions had died, billions more were doomed. Moons, planets, the very stars themselves, faced destruction - cold-blooded, brutal, and worse, random. The Idirans fought for their Faith; the Culture for its moral right to exist. Principles were at stake. There could be no surrender. Within the cosmic conflict, an individual crusade....
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good if somewhat longer than necessary
- By Colin Speller on 09-04-2018
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Consider Phlebas
- Culture Series, Book 1
- Narrated by: Peter Kenny
- Series: Culture, Book 1
- Length: 16 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 05-11-2010
- Language: English
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The Hydrogen Sonata
- Culture, Book 10
- By: Iain M. Banks
- Narrated by: Peter Kenny
- Length: 17 hrs and 12 mins
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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 10,000 years earlier and were very nearly one of its founding societies, deciding not to join only at the last moment. Now they've made the collective decision to follow the well-trodden path of millions of other civilizations: They are going to Sublime, elevating themselves to a new and almost infinitely more rich and complex existence. Amid preparations though, the Regimental High Command is destroyed....
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Peter Kenny
- By Brad on 02-10-2019
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The Hydrogen Sonata
- Culture, Book 10
- Narrated by: Peter Kenny
- Series: Culture, Book 10
- Length: 17 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 04-10-2012
- Language: English
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Look to Windward
- Culture Series, Book 7
- By: Iain M. Banks
- Narrated by: Peter Kenny
- Length: 12 hrs and 11 mins
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It was one of the less glorious incidents of a long-ago war. It led to the destruction of two suns and the billions of lives they supported. Now, 800 years later, the light from the first of those ancient mistakes has reached the Culture Orbital, Masaq. The light from the second may not.
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Outstanding
- By Chris on 10-08-2019
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Look to Windward
- Culture Series, Book 7
- Narrated by: Peter Kenny
- Series: Culture, Book 7
- Length: 12 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 23-01-2014
- Language: English
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Excession
- Culture Series, Book 5
- By: Iain M. Banks
- Narrated by: Peter Kenny
- Length: 15 hrs and 55 mins
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Two and a half millennia ago, the artifact appeared in a remote corner of space, beside a trillion-year-old dying sun from a different universe. It was a perfect black-body sphere, and it did nothing. Then it disappeared.
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A rollicking Culture Novel
- By Chris O'Neill on 25-02-2016
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Excession
- Culture Series, Book 5
- Narrated by: Peter Kenny
- Series: Culture, Book 5
- Length: 15 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 07-03-2013
- Language: English
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The State Of The Art
- Culture Series, Book 4
- By: Iain M. Banks
- Narrated by: Peter Kenny
- Length: 6 hrs and 20 mins
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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 works by using the Earth of 1977 as contrast. The other stories in the collection range from science fiction to horror, dark-coated fantasy to morality tale. All bear the indefinable stamp of Iain Banks's staggering talent.
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Skip this one.
- By Anonymous User on 24-01-2021
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The State Of The Art
- Culture Series, Book 4
- Narrated by: Peter Kenny
- Series: Culture, Book 4
- Length: 6 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 23-01-2014
- Language: English
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Use of Weapons
- Culture Series, Book 3
- By: Iain M. Banks
- Narrated by: Peter Kenny
- Length: 13 hrs and 28 mins
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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 or 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.
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Best book I have read in along time
- By Josh on 12-06-2018
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Use of Weapons
- Culture Series, Book 3
- Narrated by: Peter Kenny
- Series: Culture, Book 3
- Length: 13 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 05-04-2012
- Language: English
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The Algebraist
- By: Iain M. Banks
- Narrated by: Geoff Annis
- Length: 24 hrs and 3 mins
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For short-lived races like humans, space is dominated by the complicated, grandiose Mercatoria. To the Dwellers who may live billions of years, the galaxy consists of their gas-giant planets - the rest is debris. Fassin Taak is a Slow Seer privileged to work with the Dwellers of the gas-giant Nasqueron. His work consists of rummaging for data in their vast, disorganised memories and libraries. Unfortunately, without knowing it, he's come close to an ancient secret of unimaginable importance.
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Fantastic addition to the Iain M. Banks Audiobook
- By Matthew willey on 27-11-2017
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The Algebraist
- Narrated by: Geoff Annis
- Length: 24 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 09-11-2017
- Language: English
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Matter
- Culture Series, Book 8
- By: Iain M. Banks
- Narrated by: Toby Longworth
- Length: 17 hrs and 57 mins
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In a world renowned, even within a galaxy full of wonders, a crime occurs within a war. For one man 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 lived under constant threat of treachery and murder. And for their sister, even without knowing the full truth, it means returning to a place she'd thought abandoned forever. Only the sister is not what she once was.
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One of his best
- By Bruce on 04-01-2021
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Matter
- Culture Series, Book 8
- Narrated by: Toby Longworth
- Series: Culture, Book 8
- Length: 17 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 15-01-2008
- Language: English
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Inversions
- Culture Series, Book 6
- By: Iain M. Banks
- Narrated by: Peter Kenny
- Length: 11 hrs and 26 mins
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In the winter palace, the King's new physician has more enemies than she at first realises. But then she also has more remedies to hand than those who wish her ill can know about. In another palace across the mountains, in the service of the regicidal Protector General, the chief bodyguard, too, has his enemies. But his enemies strike more swiftly, and his means of combating them are more traditional. Spiralling round a central core of secrecy, deceit, love, and betrayal, Inversions is a spectacular work of science fiction, brilliantly told and wildly imaginative, from an author who has set genre fiction alight.
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Not the best
- By stv9007 on 25-09-2019
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Inversions
- Culture Series, Book 6
- Narrated by: Peter Kenny
- Series: Culture, Book 6
- Length: 11 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 06-06-2013
- Language: English
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The Player of Games
- Culture Series, Book 2
- By: Iain M. Banks
- Narrated by: Peter Kenny
- Length: 11 hrs and 26 mins
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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, Gurgeh travels to the Empire of Azad, cruel and incredibly wealthy, to try their fabulous game... a game so complex, so like life itself, that the winner becomes emperor.
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Love this book!
- By Chris O'Neill on 22-01-2016
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The Player of Games
- Culture Series, Book 2
- Narrated by: Peter Kenny
- Series: Culture, Book 2
- Length: 11 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 02-12-2010
- Language: English
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The Wasp Factory
- By: Iain Banks
- Narrated by: Peter Kenny
- Length: 6 hrs and 12 mins
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The Wasp Factory is a bizarre, imaginative, disturbing, and darkly comic look into the mind of a child psychopath - one of the most infamous of contemporary Scottish novels.
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Out there & compelling
- By Grace Less on 25-04-2016
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The Wasp Factory
- Narrated by: Peter Kenny
- Length: 6 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 06-03-2008
- Language: English
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Against a Dark Background
- By: Iain M. Banks
- Narrated by: Peter Kenny
- Length: 18 hrs and 19 mins
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Sharrow was once the leader of a personality-attuned combat team in one of the sporadic little commercial wars in the civilisation based around the planet Golter. Now she is hunted by the Huhsz, a religious cult which believes that she is the last obstacle before the faith's apotheosis, and her only hope of escape is to find the last of the apocalyptically powerful Lazy Guns before the Huhsz find her.
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great narration. story a bit grim.
- By Clasina on 02-11-2020
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Against a Dark Background
- Narrated by: Peter Kenny
- Length: 18 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 19-07-2012
- Language: English
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Surface Detail
- Culture Series, Book 9
- By: Iain M. Banks
- Narrated by: Peter Kenny
- Length: 20 hrs and 22 mins
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The dazzling new Culture novel from a modern master of science fiction - a tour de force of brilliant storytelling, world-building and imagination.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.
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Clever and thoughtful
- By Anonymous User on 25-01-2019
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Surface Detail
- Culture Series, Book 9
- Narrated by: Peter Kenny
- Series: Culture, Book 9
- Length: 20 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 07-10-2010
- Language: English
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The Steep Approach to Garbadale
- By: Iain Banks
- Narrated by: Peter Kenny
- Length: 13 hrs and 45 mins
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The Wopuld family built their fortune on a board game called Empire, now a wildly successful computer game. So successful, in fact, that the American Spraint Corp wants to buy the Wopulds out. Alban, who has been evading the family tentacles for the last few years, thinks Spraint should be treated with suspicion, but he also has other things on his mind. What, for example, drove his mother to take her own life?
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The Steep Approach to Garbadale
- Narrated by: Peter Kenny
- Length: 13 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 20-03-2007
- Language: English
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The Crow Road
- By: Iain Banks
- Narrated by: Peter Kenny
- Length: 13 hrs and 42 mins
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It was the day my grandmother exploded. I sat in the crematorium, listening to my Uncle Hamish quietly snoring in harmony to Bach's Mass in B Minor, and I reflected that it always seemed to be death that drew me back to Gallanach. Prentice McHoan has returned to the bosom of his complex but enduring Scottish family. Full of questions about the McHoan past, present and future, he is also deeply preoccupied: mainly with death, sex, drink, God, and illegal substances.…
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possibly the best contemporary novel I've read
- By Robert Illsley on 08-04-2020
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The Crow Road
- Narrated by: Peter Kenny
- Length: 13 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 07-02-2013
- Language: English
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Canal Dreams
- By: Iain Banks
- Narrated by: Lisa Coleman
- Length: 7 hrs and 49 mins
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Hisako Onoda, world famous cellist, refuses to fly. And so she travels to Europe as a passenger on a tanker bound through the Panama Canal. But Panama is a country whose politics are as volatile as the local freedom fighters. When Hisako's ship is captured, it is not long before the atmostphere is as flammable as an oxy-acetylene torch, and the tension as sharp as the spike on the cello....
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Canal Dreams
- Narrated by: Lisa Coleman
- Length: 7 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 23-01-2014
- Language: English
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Feersum Endjinn
- By: Iain M. Banks
- Narrated by: Peter Kenny
- Length: 9 hrs and 56 mins
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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 chaos of the crypt.... And everything is about to change.... For this is the time of the encroachment and, although the dimming sun still shines on the vast, towering walls of Serehfa Fastness, the end is close at hand.
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too odd to follow
- By Lyndon on 13-11-2018
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Feersum Endjinn
- Narrated by: Peter Kenny
- Length: 9 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 03-01-2013
- Language: English
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Complicity
- By: Iain Banks
- Narrated by: Peter Kenny
- Length: 8 hrs and 39 mins
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A few spliffs, a spot of mild S&M, phone through the copy of tomorrow's front page, catch up with the latest from your mystery source - could be big, could be very big - in fact, just a regular day at the office for free-wheeling, substance-abusing Cameron Colley, a fully paid-up Gonzo hack on an Edinburgh newspaper. The source is pretty thin, but Cameron senses a scoop and checks out a series of bizarre deaths from a few years ago - only to find that the police are checking out a series of bizarre deaths that are happening right now. And Cameron just might know more about it than he'd care to admit.…
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Complicity
- Narrated by: Peter Kenny
- Length: 8 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 07-02-2013
- Language: English
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Raw Spirit
- By: Iain Banks
- Narrated by: Tom Cotcher
- Length: 12 hrs and 24 mins
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In a bid to uncover the unique spirit of the single malt whisky, author lain Banks has decided to undertake a tour of the distilleries of his homeland. His tour of Scotland combines history, literature and landscape in an entertaining and informative account.
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Raw Spirit
- Narrated by: Tom Cotcher
- Length: 12 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 24-11-2017
- Language: English
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Transition
- By: Iain Banks
- Narrated by: Peter Kenny
- Length: 13 hrs and 36 mins
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A world that hangs suspended between triumph and catastrophe, between the dismantling of the Wall and the fall of the Twin Towers, frozen in the shadow of suicide terrorism and global financial collapse, such a world requires a firm hand and a guiding light. But does it need the Concern: an all-powerful organisation with a malevolent presiding genius, pervasive influence and numberless invisible operatives in possession of extraordinary powers?
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Transition
- Narrated by: Peter Kenny
- Length: 13 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 03-09-2009
- Language: English
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