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Banks is a true original, an author whose brilliant speculative fiction has transported us into worlds of unbounded imagination and inimitable revelat. The hydrogen sonata by iain m banks is out 4 october 2012. His new setting is a complex, wartorn galaxy with an entirely different history going back almost to the. All content included on our site, such as text, images, digital. Banks claimed in an interview that complicity is a bit like the wasp factory except without the happy ending and redeeming air of cheerfulness. Signed and dedicated to dominic, cheers, iain m banks on the title page. Edges turning a light eggshell, pages internally mainly clean and bright, some light tanning starting to a few outer pages. I read the wasp factory about 20 years ago and didnt get it. The themes of violence and substance abuse in the book. This is a complex psychological novel that plumbs the dark areas of the subconscious. This is a science fiction novel, not totally original, written with his usual wit and with a lovely twist sorting out one of the less pleasant characters.
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