Iain M. Banks (9 kníh)
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Iain M. Banks Algebraist ENIt 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 system awaiting its wormhole connection to the rest of civilisation. In the meantime, they are dismissed as decadents living in a state of highly developed barbarism,…
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Iain M. Banks Consider Phlebas CZMiliony umírají a další miliony jsou odsouzeny k záhubě. Měsíce, planety a mnoho hvězd je zničeno - nelítostně, a co více, zcela náhodně. Idirane bojují za své přesvědčení. Kultura pro své morální právo na existenci. V sázce jsou principy. Vzdát se je nemyslitelné. Napříč galaxií zuří válka. Uprostřed vesmírné genocidy probíhá individuální křížová výprava. Hluboko v bájném labyrintu na nehostinném světě, planetě,…
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Iain M. Banks HráčKultura – společnost lidí a strojů – už dala světu mnoho velkých hráčů. Jedním z nich je Jernau Morat Gurgeh, Hráč, pán každé herní desky, přemožitel počítačů, stratég. Znuděný úspěchem odcestuje do kruté a neskutečně...
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Iain M. Banks Líc a rub CZPřed mnoha lety dštila nebesa kamení a oheň a Přivodila tak zkázu starého císařství. Země, které se vymanily z jeho svazující hegemonie, teď mají nastolit nový světový pořádek. Zvláště dva lidé vidí tento proces v širších souvislostech. V zimním paláci má králova nová lékařka více nepřátel, než si zprvu uvědomuje - její protivníci ovšem nevědí, že nemá ve svém arzenálu jen léky… V jiném paláci za horami má vrchní…
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Iain M. Banks Matter ENIn a world renowned 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 lived under constant threat of treachery and murder. And for their sister, it means returning to a place she’d thought abandoned forever. Only the sister is not what she once was; Djan Seriy…
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Iain M. Banks Steep Approach to Garbadale ENDark family secrets, a long-lost love affair and a multi-million pound gaming business lie at the heart of Iain Banks's fabulous new novel. The Wopuld family built its fortune on a board game called Empire! – now a hugely successful computer game. So successful, the American Spraint Corp wants to buy the firm out. Young renegade Alban, who has been evading the family clutches for years, is run to ground and…
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Iain M. Banks Surface Detail ENIt 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…
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Iain M. Banks Surface Detail ENIt 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 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…
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Iain M. Banks The Hydrogen Sonata ENThe Scavenger species are circling. It is, truly, the End Days for the Gzilt civilisation. An ancient people, organised on military principles and yet almost perversely peaceful, the Gzilt helped set up the Culture ten thousand 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…
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