"Best books in recent years imo are Iain Banks & George Martin." - Elon Musk

"Best books in recent years imo are Iain Banks & George Martin." - Elon Musk

"Best books in recent years imo are Iain Banks & George Martin." - Elon Musk

"Best books in recent years imo are Iain Banks & George Martin." - Elon Musk

"A bit more obscure." - Elon Musk

"Brilliant. [The author] advocates placing limits on machine intelligence." - Elon Musk

"[The Foundation series is] fundamental to [the] creation of SpaceX." - Elon Musk

"Compelling picture of a grand, semi-utopian galactic future. Hopefully not too optimistic about AI." - Elon Musk

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 series:'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 series:Consider PhlebasThe Player of GamesUse of WeaponsThe State of the ArtExcessionInversionsLook to WindwardMatterSurface DetailThe Hydrogen SonataOther books by Iain M. Banks:Against a Dark BackgroundFeersum EndjinnThe Algebraist

"Compelling picture of a grand, semi-utopian galactic future. Hopefully not too optimistic about AI." - Elon Musk