Banks Culture novels, which are usually replete with imaginative and sublime far future science and technology. Leguins scifi, which often is close to fantasy on the surface despite obviously alien settings, though the motives that are hidden in Inversions are very much in plain sight in novels such as The Left Hand of Darkness. The Culture is an interstellar anarchic utopian confederation of artificial and natural worlds populated by humanity, aliens, and sentient machines, and run by AI. Spiralling round a central core of secrecy, deceit, love and betrayal, INVERSIONS is a spectacular work of science fiction, brilliantly told and wildly imaginative, from an author who has set genre fiction alight. Inversions (1998) is the least obviously science fictional of Iain M. Inversions is Banks most obvious work of social science fiction taken to the extreme, reminiscent in some ways of Ursula K. Inversions (1998) is the least obviously science fictional of Iain M. But his enemies strike more swiftly, and his means of combating them are more traditional. In another palace across the mountains, in the service of the regicidal Protector General, the chief bodyguard, too, has his enemies.

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