FEERSUM ENDJINN.**

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn. [He wrote mainstream fiction under the name Iain Banks and science fiction as Iain M. Banks including the initial of his adopted middle name Menzies.When originally first published in UK,the title was not for sale in America,nor yet published there (then 1994).] FINE/FINE. No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,glossy, colour pictorial wrap-around illustrated dw/dj by Mark Salwoski; with white embossed and printed lettering to front panel,white printed letters to spine/backstrip and rear panel; with negligible shelf-wear, bumping or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present. Top+fore-edges very lightly toned - nowhere to ubiquitous degree that these publisher's (ORBIT) hardback titles are prone to - contents bright, tight and very clean - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corner tips,appears unread,apart from my own collation.Publisher's bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,original plain black cloth boards with bright, crisp,blocked gilt lettering to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain white endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,4- 279pp [paginated] includes 10 Pts/sections comprising 4 chapters each to the first 9 Pts/ sections and 6 in the remaining one; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,a dedication,and 9 individual,identical b/w illustrated Pts/sections separator pages,and to the rear,as last page,publisher's order page.
6th book in his 'The Culture' sequence. An exceptional example in excellent condition.
Winner of the British Science Fiction Association Award,Novel,1995. A bravura narration in dyslexic English - into a neatly planned climax.
Iain Banks came to widespread and controversial public notice with the publication of his first novel, 'THE WASP FACTORY' in 1984.He has then since gained enormous popular and critical acclaim for both his mainstream and his science fiction novels. Sadly no longer with us. Died June 2013. Want more Iain M[enzies] BANKS/Iain BANKS titles? For similar and other available titles - please search my MODERN FIRSTS2, MODERN FIRSTS, 1001 Book You Must Read Before You Die, and SIGNED catalogues.
Count Sessine is about to die for the very last time. . .
Chief Scientist Gadfium is about to receive the mysterious message she has been waiting for from the Plain of Sliding Stones. . .
Bascule the Teller,in search of an ant,is about to enter the chaos of the crypt. . .
And everything is about to change. . .
For this is the time of the Encroachment and,although the dimming sun still shines on the vast,towering walls of Serehfa Fastness,the end is close at hand.The King knows it,his closest advisers know it,yet still they prosecute the war against the clan Engineers with increasing savagery.
The crypt knows it too; so an emissary has been sent, an emissary who holds the key to all their futures.
'Feersum Emdjinn' is an imaginative tour de force,a stunning novel of bravery and hope,fear and betrayal, strangeness and charm in the face of darkness: it is Iain M. Banks at his unparalleled best.
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