Book Preview The ship didn’t even have a name. It had no human crew because the factory craft which constructed it had been evacuated long ago. It had no life-support or accommodation units for the same reason. It had no class number or fleet designation because it was a mongrel made from bits and pieces … Read more
Book Preview 1 Independent Deterrent 13 Sleep When I’m Dead Chapter 1 : INDEPENDENT DETERRENT file:///F|/rah/Iain%20Banks/Banks,_Iain_-_Complicity_(v2).html (1 of 213) [1/19/03 9:57:00 PM] You hear the car after an hour and a half. During that time you’ve been here in the darkness, sitting on the small telephone seat near the front door, waiting. You only moved … Read more
Book Preview Generated by ABC Amber LIT Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abclit.html Hisako Onoda, world famous cellist, refuses to fly. And so she travels through the Panama Canal as a passenger on a tanker bound for Europe. But Panama is a country whose politics are as volatile as the local freedom fighters. When Hisako’s ship is captured, it … Read more
Book Preview Iain M. Banks: Against a Dark Background v1.0 (17-mar-01) Scanning, layout and quick proofing by 4i Publications. She put her chin on the wood below the window. The wood was cold and shiny and smelled. She kneeled on the seat; it smelled too, but different. The seat was wide and red like the … Read more
Book Preview Iain Banks – A Song Of Stone Chapter One Winter always was my favourite season. Is this yet winter? I do not know. There is some technical definition, something based on calendars and the position of the sun, but I think one simply becomes aware that the tide of the seasons has irrevocably … Read more