Inversions (Paperback)

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Iain M. Banks, the international bestselling author of The Player of Games and Consider Phlebas, is a true original, a literary visionary whose brilliant speculative fiction has transported us into worlds of unbounded imagination. Now, in his acclaimed new novel, Banks presents an engrossing portrait of an alien world, and of two very different people bound by a startling and mysterious secret.
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 then she also has more remedies in hand than those who wish her 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 versatile and imaginative author writing at the height of his remarkable powers.

About the Author


Iain M. Banks (1954–2013), one of the United Kingdom’s most popular science fiction authors, wrote such highly regarded novels as Consider Phlebas, Excession, and Inversions. Under the name “Iain Banks,” he also published mainstream fiction, including such novels as The Wasp Factory and A Song of Stone.

Praise For…


William Gibson author of Neuromancer Banks is a phenomenon. Wildly successful, fearlessly creative!

SFX Iain Banks is a tricky fellow. Watch carefully as he assures you there's nothing up his sleeve.

Locus A talent to be reckoned with.

Vernor Vinge author of A Fire Upon the Deep Inversions is a magical interplay of viewpoint and simplicity. At different levels we find the romance of medieval royalty, the horrors that lie below it, and the prospect of a civilization transforming itself into something marvelously better.

Los Angeles Times Banks never does the same thing twice. But he always does it sublimely.

David Brin author of the Uplift series Iain M. Banks has a deep grasp of story, character, and the irony of this strange life that humans are born into. He is a master at portraying the terror and poignant joy that swirl whenever people open their horizons and start to see their dreams come true.

The Detroit News A genuine and original talent.

Vernor Vinge Iain M. Banks' novels are subtle and spectacular.


Product Details
ISBN: 9781416583783
ISBN-10: 1416583785
Publisher: Gallery Books
Publication Date: October 19th, 2007
Pages: 352
Language: English