Another truly impressive piece of work from the pen of a master storyteller. * STARBURST * Dazzlingly original. * DAILY MAIL * Banks is a phenomenon: the widly successful, fearlessly creative author of brilliant and disturbing non-genre novels, he's equally at home writing pure science fiction of a peculiarly gnarly energy and elegance. * WILLIAM GIBSON * Sharp, witty, comprehensively terrifying. * OBSERVER *
Iain Banks came to widespread and controversial public notice with the publication of his first novel, THE WASP FACTORY, in 1984. He has since gained enormous popular and critical acclaim for both his mainstream and his science fiction novels.