Let’s skip the highty-flighty, atmospheric float of intros and get right to the point.  Iain M. Banks’ 1996 Excession is gosh-wow, sense-...

Virtual hell.  It’s an expression used everyday, from street fighting in the Middle East to an awful day at work.  But what if it were act...

Over the top villain. Check.  Strange and funny alien races.  Check.  Quest for singular object that lea...

This is the first book I have read by Banks - and it won’t be the last.  His post-human vision of the very distant future, with its closer-...