Name: Inversions
Price: 39.88 NZD
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Author: Iain M. Banks
ISBN: 9781982156107

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Physical Book

Author

Iain M. Banks

Publisher

Gallery Books

Language

English

Pages

352

Format

Paperback

ISBN13

9781982156107

Inversions

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Synopsis "Inversions "

An engrossing portrait of an alien world and two very different people bound by a startling and mysterious secret from the internationally bestselling author of The Player of Games and Consider Phlebas Iain M. Banks. On a backward world with six moons, an alert spy reports on the doings of one Dr. Vosill, who has mysteriously become the personal physician to the king despite being a foreigner and, even more unthinkably, a woman. Vosill has more enemies than she first realizes. But she also has more remedies in hand than those who wish ill can ever guess. Elsewhere, in another palace across the mountains, a man named DeWar serves as chief bodyguard to the Protector General of Tassasen, a profession he describes as the business of "assassinating assassins." DeWar, too, has his enemies, but his foes strike more swiftly, and his means of combating them are more direct. No one trusts the doctor, and the bodyguard trusts no one, but is there a hidden commonality linking their disparate histories? Spiraling around a central core of mystery, deceit, love, and betrayal, Inversions is a dazzling work of science fiction from "a talent to be reckoned with" (Locus Magazine) at the height of his remarkable powers.

Iain M. Banks

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Iain Menzies Banks fue un novelista escocés reconocido por su habilidad para moverse con soltura entre la ficción literaria y la ciencia ficción. Bajo su nombre completo firmó la aclamada saga Culture, universo que consolidó su prestigio internacional por su mezcla de especulación tecnológica, crítica política y humor afilado. Su “Culture – 25th Anniversary Box Set” reúne algunas de las piezas esenciales del ciclo y celebra la influencia de su obra en el género.

A lo largo de su trayectoria también publicó novelas realistas que mostraban una voz intensa, incómoda y muy observadora. Su estilo directo, imaginativo y provocador le convirtió en una referencia para lectores que buscaban mundos complejos y narrativas ambiciosas. La amplitud temática de su trabajo, su consistencia y su capacidad para incomodar y fascinar a partes iguales siguen situándolo como una figura clave de la literatura contemporánea en lengua inglesa.

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