Musk even named a number of the landing platforms for the Falcon boosters after Banks spaceships ( Just Read the Insctructions Of Course I Still Love You ). It is noteworthy that Elon Musk of Space-X and Jeff Bezos of Blue Origin are fans of Iain Banks sci-fi stories.
Banks sci-fi novel and the first in the seminal Culture universe. The dust jacket is NOT price clipped showing the correct £10.95 net price. Natural toning of the paper commensurate with age is very minimal. Book is aquare and yellow boards are clean. No previous owners inscriptions, no bookplates, no stamps. Condition: a lovely, fine copy and probably unread. Inscribed copies are prefered by the collector due to the additional security and comparability of the handwriting. In recent years a number of forged Banks signatures have emerged. Signed and inscribed by the author on the title page: To Richard from Iain M Banks 15/3/89. Banks (1987) Consider Phlebas, UK first edition, first printing, published by Macmillan.
By the time it was noticed that the ships Mind had taken exactly that path through its screen of annihilation, it was too late to stop it from falling away through hyperspace towards the small, cold planet fourth out from the single yellow sun of the nearby systems.the planet the Mind had made for through its shield of explosions was not one they could simply attack, destroy or even land on it was Schar's World, near the region of barren space between two galactic strands called the Sullen Gulf, and it was one of the forbidden planets of the Dead". It was not, however, a route the Mind of a small, archaic warship could plan for, create and follow. Its protagonist Bora Horza Gobuchul is an enemy of the Culture." (from Wikipedia) "Escape seemed impossible: 'there was one bewilderingly complicated and unlikely way out of the concentric shells of erupting energies now opening like the petals of some immense flower between the star systems. The novel revolves around the Idiran-Culture War, and Banks plays on that theme by presenting various microcosms of that conflict. It is the first in a series of novels about an interstellar post-scarcity society called the Culture. "Consider Phlebas is a space opera novel by Scottish writer Iain M. Light sunning, and light rubbing to edges of dustjacket.
Blue cloth-covered boards with gilt title to spine.
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