num_pages: 405
description: The sixth Culture book from the awesome imagination of Iain M. Banks, a modern master of 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. In another palace across the mountains, in the service of the regicidal Protector General, the chief bodyguard, too, has his enemies. But his enemies strike more swiftly, and his means of combating them are more traditional. 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. Praise for the Culture 'Epic in scope, ambitious in its ideas and absorbing in its execution' Independent on Sunday'Banks has created one of the most enduring and endearing visions of the future' Guardian'Jam-packed with extraordinary invention' Scotsman'Compulsive reading' Sunday Telegraph The Culture Consider PhlebasThe Player of GamesUse of WeaponsThe State of the ArtExcessionInversionsLook to WindwardMatterSurface DetailThe Hydrogen Sonata Other books by Iain M. Banks :Against a Dark BackgroundFeersum EndjinnThe Algebraist
language: English
title: Inversions
titlecomplete: Inversions (Culture, #6)
characters: Dr. Vosill
genres: Adventure, Fantasy, Cultural, Speculative Fiction, Banks, Technology, Science Fiction Fantasy, Space Opera, Fiction, Science Fiction
ratings_count: 17733
series: Culture
awards: awardedAt: 978336000000
name: Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis
category: Bestes ausländisches Werk (Best Foreign Work), awardedAt: 883641600000
name: British Science Fiction Association Award
category: Best Novel
publisher: Time Warner Books Uk