Book Preview A couple of hours before all hell broke loose, I was in bed, awake since five, pondering the circumstances that had returned me, at the age of forty-one, to my childhood home. It wasn’t that the room was exactly the same as when I’d moved out almost twenty years ago. The Ferrari poster … Read more
Book Preview Prologue Driving along the Post Road late that early October night, Paul Davis was pretty sure the car driving erratically in front of him belonged to his colleague Kenneth Hoffman. The ancient, dark blue Volvo station wagon was a fixture around West Haven College, a cliché on wheels of what a stereotypical professor … Read more
Book Preview A light breeze produced a dry rattling sound from some nearby bushes. It lifted delicate little veils of dust from a few sandy patches nearby and shifted a lock of dark hair across the forehead of the woman sitting on the wood and canvas camp chair which was perched, not quite level, on … Read more
Book Preview Iain Banks – A Song Of Stone Ver 1.0 This text was scanned in using Omnipage 9.0 and assembled and read in Word 2000. It is provided on the assumption that this is an electronic copy of a physical book that you posses and are using this file for convienience. If you find … Read more
Book Preview v1.0 : 14 June 2001 : HugHug using JSTextify Graham Park is in love. But Sara Ffitch is an enigma to him, a creature of almost perverse mystery. Steven Grout is paranoid – and with justice. He knows that They are out to get him. They are. Quiss, insecure in his fabulous if … Read more
Book Preview Enter – if you can bear it – the extraordinary private world of Frank, just sixteen, and unconventional, to say the least. ‘Two years after I killed Blyth I murdered my young brother Paul, for quite different and more fundamental reasons than I’d disposed of Blyth, and then a year after that I … Read more
Book Preview First published in Great Britain by Scribners This edition published by Abacus 1993 Reprinted 1993 (twice), 1994, 1995 (twice), 1996 (three times), 1997 (three times), 1998 Copyright (c) 1992 Iain Banks The right of Iain Banks to be identified as author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with the … Read more
Book Preview Published 1999. ISBN 0-349-11245-2. Scanned by HugHug. Proofed by Nadie. ‘Mike! Mike Danielsh! Chrisht, Kate, don’t – ‘ ‘Mike, it’s…it’s four thirty-seven.’ ‘I know what time it ish!’ file:///F|/rah/Iain%20Banks/Iain%20Banks%20-%20The%20Business%20v2.0.html (1 of 290) [8/28/03 1:14:29 PM] ‘Mike, I’d really like to get back to sleep.’ ‘I’m shorry, but it’sh fucking important!’ ‘You should get … Read more
Book Preview A man lies in a coma after a near-fatal accident. His body broken, his memory vanished, he finds himself in the surreal world of the bridge – a world free of the usual constraints of time and space, a world where dream and fantasy, past and future fuse. Who is this man? Where … Read more
Book Preview Generated by ABC Amber LIT Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abclit.html Ihave a story to tell you. It has many beginnings, and perhaps one ending. Perhaps not. Beginnings and endings are contin-gent things anyway; inventions, devices. Where does any storyreally begin? There is always context, always an encompassinglygreater epic, always something before the described events, unlesswe are … Read more
Book Preview Generated by ABC Amber LIT Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abclit.html Ihave a story to tell you. It has many beginnings, and perhaps one ending. Perhaps not. Beginnings and endings are contin-gent things anyway; inventions, devices. Where does any storyreally begin? There is always context, always an encompassinglygreater epic, always something before the described events, unlesswe are … Read more
Book Preview The only sin is selfishness. So said the good Doctor. When she first expressed this opinion I was young enough initially to be puzzled and then to be impressed at what I took to be her profundity. It was only later, in my middle-age, when she was long gone from us, that I … Read more
Book Preview Iain M. Banks – Feersum Endjinn v1 Published in 1995. ISBN: 1857232739 [T] links to a translation of that chapter file:///F|/rah/Iain%20Banks/Banks,%20Iain%20-%20Feersum%20Endjinn.html (1 of 355) [5/21/03 1:48:17 AM] Iain M. Banks – Feersum Endjinn v1 Then, it was as though everything was stripped away: sensation, memory, self, even the notion of existence that underlies … Read more
Book Preview Two days ago I decided to kill myself… Last night I changed my mind and decided to stay alive. Everything that follows is…just to try and explain. Daniel Weir used to be a famous – not to say infamous – rock star. Maybe still is. At thirty-one he has been both a brilliant … Read more
Book Preview Near the time we both knew I would have to leave him, it was hard to tell which flashes were lightning and which came from the energy weapons of the Invisibles. A vast burst of blue-white light leapt across the sky, making an inverted landscape of the ragged clouds’ undersurface and revealing through … Read more
Book Preview The only sin is selfishness. So said the good Doctor. When she first expressed this opinion I was young enough initially to be puzzled and then to be impressed at what I took to be her profundity. It was only later, in my middle-age, when she was long gone from us, that I … Read more
Book Preview A little more than one hundred days into the fortieth year of her confinement, Dajeil Gelian was visited in her lonely tower overlooking the sea by an avatar of the great ship that was her home. Far out amongst the heaving grey waves, beneath drifting banks of mist, the great slow bodies of … Read more
Book Preview body {font-family: verdana} .chapter {padding-top: 5%; padding-bottom: 5%} p {text-align:justify; } Published: 1990. ISBN: 1 85723 135 X · ‘Slight Mechanical Destruction’ I blame Ken MacLeod for the whole thing. It was his idea to argue the old warrior out of retirement, and he suggested the fitness program, too. ‘Slight Mechanical Destruction’ Zakalwe … Read more