Surface Detail | Banks, Iain M.

A stunning new reissue edition of Surface Detail - a space opera of stunning power and awesome imagination from Iain M. Banks, one of the most important and influential writers in modern science fiction.



It begins in the realm of the Real, where matter still matters.



Lededje Y'breq is one of the Intagliated, her marked body bearing witness to a family shame, her life belonging to a man whose lust for power is without limit. Prepared to risk everything for her freedom, her release, when it comes, is at a price, and to put things right she will need the help of the Culture.



It begins in the realm of the Real. It begins with a murder.



And it will not end until the Culture has gone to war with death itself.



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



'Jam-packed with extraordinary invention' Scotsman



'Compulsive reading' Sunday Telegraph



The Culture series:

Consider Phlebas

The Player of Games

Use of Weapons

Excession

Inversions

Look to Windward

Matter

Surface Detail

The Hydrogen Sonata

The State of the Art



Other books by Iain M. Banks:

Against a Dark Background

Feersum Endjinn

The Algebraist



Also 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.