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Oct 24, 2024 | 
ventrica.co.uk | Iain M. Banks
At Ventrica, we are passionate about delivering customer experiences that leave lasting impressions - experiences that go beyond just resolving issues and instead focus on building emotional connections with customers. This commitment to Emotive CX has recently earned us recognition as a Major Contender in the Everest Group’s 2024 CXM PEAK Matrix® Assessment for EMEA. This milestone is no small feat.
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Sep 26, 2024 | 
lesen.de | Iain M. Banks
A stunning new reissue edition of Surface Detail - a space opera of stunning power and awesome imagination from Iain M. Banks, one of the most important and influential writers in modern science fiction. It begins in the realm of the Real, where matter still matters. Lededje Y'breq is one of the Intagliated, her marked body bearing witness to a family shame, her life belonging to a man whose lust for power is without limit.
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Apr 16, 2024 | 
fivebooks.com | Frank Herbert |Ursula Le Guin |Iain M. Banks |Stephen Baxter
selected by Tom Huddleston out now The Worlds of Dune: The Places and Cultures that Inspired Frank Herbert by Tom Huddleston For many readers of science fiction, world building is the most important feature of their favourite books.
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Feb 14, 2024 | 
thecoycaterpillarreads.blog | Iain M. Banks
The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks Published by Abacus on 4 September 2008 Genres: Horror Pages: 194 Format: Paperback Source: Purchased Book Buy on Amazon Goodreads Frank, no ordinary sixteen-year-old, lives with his father outside a remote Scottish village. Their life is, to say the least, unconventional. Frank's mother abandoned them years ago: his elder brother Eric is confined to a psychiatric hospital; and his father measures out his eccentricities on an imperial scale.
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Nov 30, 2023 | 
booksfromscotland.com | Iain M. Banks
By (author) Iain M. Banks This extraordinary collection celebrates the dazzling worldbuilding of Iain M. Banks, one of the most important and influential writers in modern science fiction. Faithfully reproduced from notebooks he kept in the 1970s and 80s, these annotated original illustrations depict the ships, habitats, geography, weapons and language of Banks’ Culture series of novels in incredible detail.
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Nov 28, 2023 | 
gameishard.gg | Tom Misch |Iain M. Banks
Iain M Banks: Unveiling the Creative Process Behind the Sci-Fi Maestro The late Iain Banks, a renowned Scottish author known for his captivating novels and unique storytelling ability, had an unexpected relationship with video games. The popular anecdote goes that Banks became so engrossed in the strategy game Civilization during the 1990s that it began to interfere with his writing career, leading him to delete the game from his computer.
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Sep 25, 2023 | 
booksfromscotland.com | Iain M. Banks
By (author) Iain M. Banks A stunning new reissue edition of Inversions – a space opera of stunning power and awesome imagination from Iain M. Banks, one of the most important and influential writers in modern science fiction. In the winter palace, the King’s new physician has more enemies than she at first realises. But then she also has more remedies to hand than those who wish her ill can know about.
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Sep 25, 2023 | 
booksfromscotland.com | Iain M. Banks
By (author) Iain M. Banks A stunning new reissue edition of Excession – a space opera of stunning power and awesome imagination from Iain M. Banks, one of the most important and influential writers in modern science fiction. Two and a half millennia ago, the artifact appeared in a remote corner of space, beside a trillion-year-old dying sun from a different universe. It was a perfect black-body sphere, and it did nothing. Then it disappeared. Now it is back.
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Sep 25, 2023 | 
booksfromscotland.com | Iain M. Banks
By (author) Iain M. Banks A stunning new reissue edition of The State of the Art – a collection of short stories of stunning power and awesome imagination from Iain M. Banks, one of the most important and influential writers in modern science fiction. The first ever collection of Iain M. Banks’s short fiction, this volume includes the acclaimed novella, The State of the Art.
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Sep 25, 2023 | 
booksfromscotland.com | Iain M. Banks
By (author) Iain M. Banks A stunning new reissue edition of the third Culture novel from Iain M. Banks – one of the most important and influential writers in modern science fiction. The man known as Cheradenine Zakalwe was one of Special Circumstances’ foremost agents, changing the destiny of planets to suit the Culture through intrigue, dirty tricks or military action.
