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FEERSUM ENDJINN.
[London]: Orbit, [1994]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Winner of the British Science Fiction Association Award, Novel, 1995. [Reference: Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-74].
FEERSUM ENDJINN.
[London]: Orbit, [1994]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Winner of the British Science Fiction Association Award, Novel, 1995. "...is a complex tale told at a scherzo pace, conflating several plotlines – one a bravura narration in dyslexic English – into a neatly planned climax during which the purpose of a terrestrial Macrostructure is revealed, a Far Future world is saved, folk are reunited, the dead walk as do the Uploaded, and every living being is sling-shot into a new paradigm at the end of things." - John Clute and David Langford, SFE (online). [Reference: Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-74].
CANAL DREAMS.
London: Macmillan, 1989. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition.
COMPLICITY.
[London]: Little, Brown and Company, [1993]. Octavo, boards. First edition. "COMPLICITY is certainly [Banks'] most horrific book. In this novel a Scottish eremite exacts horrible revenge on people who have committed crimes but got away with them; it is not a comfortable book, and is made even less so by its superficial construction as a work of detection. It is more difficult here, however, to sympathize with the central character who is a muckraking journalist, drug addict, and sexual masochist--his masochism is played off effectively against the murderer's sadism." - John Grant in Pringle (ed), St. James Guide to Horror, Ghost & Gothic Writers, ps. 33.
CONSIDER PHLEBAS.
London: Macmillan, [1987]. Octavo, boards. First edition. "Conflict between two dystopian cultures, one Islamic, the other communist. First of his novels of the Culture, few of which have explicitly utopian content but can collectively be seen as utopian." - Sargent, British and Utopian Literature, 1986-2009. [Reference: Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-72].
ESPEDAIR STREET.
London: MacMillan, [1987]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Novel featuring sex, drugs and rock and roll.
THE PLAYER OF GAMES.
London: Macmillan, [1988]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. One of 201 numbered copies signed by Banks. Second novel of the Culture sequence. "... though more economically told than CONSIDER PHLEBAS (1987), its bulbous predecessor, less challengingly pits its protagonist against a savage game-based civilization, which he causes to crumble." - John Clute and David Langford, SFE (online). [Reference: Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1986-2009].
WALKING ON GLASS.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1986. Octavo, Hardcover. First U.S. edition.
WALKING ON GLASS.
[London]: MacMillan, [1985]. Octavo, boards. First edition. The author's second book.
WALKING ON GLASS.
[London]: Macmillan, [1985]. Octavo, boards. First edition. The author's second book.
WALKING ON GLASS.
[London]: MacMillan, [1985]. Octavo, boards. First edition. The author's second book.
THE WASP FACTORY.
London: Macmillan, [1984]. Octavo, boards. First edition. The author's first book. [Reference: Barron (ed), Horror Literature 4-19. Jones and Newman (eds), Horror: 100 Best Books 90].
THE WASP FACTORY.
London: Macmillan, [1984]. Octavo, boards. First edition. The author's first book. [Reference: Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror 6-20. Jones and Newman (eds), Horror: 100 Best Books 90].