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Consider Phlebas
- Culture Series, Book 1
- By: Iain M. Banks
- Narrated by: Peter Kenny
- Length: 16 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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The war raged across the galaxy. Billions had died, billions more were doomed. Moons, planets, the very stars themselves, faced destruction - cold-blooded, brutal, and worse, random. The Idirans fought for their Faith; the Culture for its moral right to exist. Principles were at stake. There could be no surrender. Within the cosmic conflict, an individual crusade....
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A Truly Great Sci-Fi Novel
- By scotty on 09-04-12
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Consider Phlebas
- Culture Series, Book 1
- Narrated by: Peter Kenny
- Series: Culture, Book 1
- Length: 16 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 05-11-10
- Language: English
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Use of Weapons
- Culture Series, Book 3
- By: Iain M. Banks
- Narrated by: Peter Kenny
- Length: 13 hrs and 28 mins
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The man known as Cheradenine Zakalwe was one of Special Circumstances' foremost agents, changing the destiny of planets to suit the Culture through intrigue, dirty tricks or military action. The woman known as Diziet Sma had plucked him from obscurity and pushed him towards his present eminence, but despite all their dealings she did not know him as well as she thought. The drone known as Skaffen-Amtiskaw knew both of these people.
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Another great book from Iain M Banks.
- By Thomas on 16-04-12
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Use of Weapons
- Culture Series, Book 3
- Narrated by: Peter Kenny
- Series: Culture, Book 3
- Length: 13 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 05-04-12
- Language: English
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The Player of Games
- Culture Series, Book 2
- By: Iain M. Banks
- Narrated by: Peter Kenny
- Length: 11 hrs and 26 mins
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The Culture - a human/machine symbiotic society - has thrown up many great Game Players, and one of the greatest is Gurgeh: Jernau Morat Gurgeh, The Player of Games, master of every board, computer, and strategy. Bored with success, Gurgeh travels to the Empire of Azad, cruel and incredibly wealthy, to try their fabulous game... a game so complex, so like life itself, that the winner becomes emperor.
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Civilisation and the Culture
- By Mark on 08-12-10
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The Player of Games
- Culture Series, Book 2
- Narrated by: Peter Kenny
- Series: Culture, Book 2
- Length: 11 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 02-12-10
- Language: English
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Surface Detail
- Culture Series, Book 9
- By: Iain M. Banks
- Narrated by: Peter Kenny
- Length: 20 hrs and 22 mins
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The dazzling new Culture novel from a modern master of science fiction - a tour de force of brilliant storytelling, world-building and imagination.It begins in the realm of the Real, where matter still matters. It begins with a murder. And it will not end until the Culture has gone to war with death itself.
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The finest Culture novel yet!
- By J Hurwitz on 04-11-10
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Surface Detail
- Culture Series, Book 9
- Narrated by: Peter Kenny
- Series: Culture, Book 9
- Length: 20 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 07-10-10
- Language: English
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Excession
- Culture Series, Book 5
- By: Iain M. Banks
- Narrated by: Peter Kenny
- Length: 15 hrs and 55 mins
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Two and a half millennia ago, the artifact appeared in a remote corner of space, beside a trillion-year-old dying sun from a different universe. It was a perfect black-body sphere, and it did nothing. Then it disappeared.
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Superb story, better narration
- By Marc on 22-03-13
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Excession
- Culture Series, Book 5
- Narrated by: Peter Kenny
- Series: Culture, Book 5
- Length: 15 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 07-03-13
- Language: English
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Look to Windward
- Culture Series, Book 7
- By: Iain M. Banks
- Narrated by: Peter Kenny
- Length: 12 hrs and 11 mins
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It was one of the less glorious incidents of a long-ago war. It led to the destruction of two suns and the billions of lives they supported. Now, 800 years later, the light from the first of those ancient mistakes has reached the Culture Orbital, Masaq. The light from the second may not.
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Fantastic book, expertly delivered by Peter Kenny.
- By Marc on 22-05-14
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Look to Windward
- Culture Series, Book 7
- Narrated by: Peter Kenny
- Series: Culture, Book 7
- Length: 12 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 23-01-14
- Language: English
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The State of the Art
- Culture Series, Book 4
- By: Iain M. Banks
- Narrated by: Peter Kenny
- Length: 6 hrs and 20 mins
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The first ever collection of Iain Banks's short fiction, this volume includes the acclaimed novella, The State of the Art. This is a striking addition to the growing body of Culture lore, and adds definition and scale to the previous works by using the Earth of 1977 as contrast. The other stories in the collection range from science fiction to horror, dark-coated fantasy to morality tale. All bear the indefinable stamp of Iain Banks's staggering talent.
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Mixed bag, but brilliant narration
- By A L Cooper on 05-02-17
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The State of the Art
- Culture Series, Book 4
- Narrated by: Peter Kenny
- Series: Culture, Book 4
- Length: 6 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 23-01-14
- Language: English
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Inversions
- Culture Series, Book 6
- By: Iain M. Banks
- Narrated by: Peter Kenny
- Length: 11 hrs and 26 mins
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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.
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One of his best if you prefer subtlety
- By Chris on 17-03-16
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Inversions
- Culture Series, Book 6
- Narrated by: Peter Kenny
- Series: Culture, Book 6
- Length: 11 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 06-06-13
- Language: English
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The Algebraist
- By: Iain M. Banks
- Narrated by: Geoff Annis
- Length: 24 hrs and 3 mins
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For short-lived races like humans, space is dominated by the complicated, grandiose Mercatoria. To the Dwellers who may live billions of years, the galaxy consists of their gas-giant planets - the rest is debris. Fassin Taak is a Slow Seer privileged to work with the Dwellers of the gas-giant Nasqueron. His work consists of rummaging for data in their vast, disorganised memories and libraries. Unfortunately, without knowing it, he's come close to an ancient secret of unimaginable importance.
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Spoiled by awful narration
- By Martin on 05-12-17
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The Algebraist
- Narrated by: Geoff Annis
- Length: 24 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 09-11-17
- Language: English
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Dark Matter
- By: Blake Crouch
- Narrated by: Jon Lindstrom
- Length: 10 hrs and 8 mins
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'Are you happy in your life?' Those are the last words Jason Dessen hears before the masked abductor knocks him unconscious. Before he wakes to find himself strapped to a gurney, surrounded by strangers in hazmat suits. Before the man he's never met smiles down at him and says, 'Welcome back, my friend.' In this world he's woken up to, Jason's life is not the one he knows. His wife is not his wife. His son was never born. And Jason is not an ordinary college physics professor but a celebrated genius who has achieved something remarkable. Something impossible.
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gripping, fast paced, extremely enjoyable
- By anon on 03-01-17
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Dark Matter
- Narrated by: Jon Lindstrom
- Length: 10 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 11-08-16
- Language: English
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Ready Player Two
- By: Ernest Cline
- Narrated by: Wil Wheaton
- Length: 13 hrs and 46 mins
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Days after winning OASIS Founder James Halliday's contest, Wade Watts makes a discovery that changes everything. Hidden within Halliday's vaults, waiting for his heir to find, lies a technological advancement that will once again change the world and make the OASIS a thousand times more wondrous - and addictive - than even Wade dreamed possible. With it comes a new riddle and a new quest - a last Easter egg from Halliday, hinting at a mysterious prize. And an unexpected, impossibly powerful and dangerous new rival awaits, one who'll kill millions to get what he wants.
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Game Over
- By GlenghisKhan on 26-11-20
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Ready Player Two
- Narrated by: Wil Wheaton
- Series: Ready Player One, Book 2
- Length: 13 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 24-11-20
- Language: English
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Dead Air
- By: Iain Banks
- Narrated by: Peter Kenny
- Length: 11 hrs and 31 mins
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A couple of ice cubes first, then the apple that really started it all. A loft apartment in London's East End; cool but doomed - demolition and redevelopment slated fro the following week. Ken Nott, devoutly contrarian leftish shock-jock attending a mid-week wedding lunch, starts dropping stuff off the rood towards the deserted car park 100 feet below. Other guests join in and soon half the contents of the flat are following the fruit towards the pitted tarmac... just as mobiles start to ring, and the apartment's remaining TV is turned on, because apparently a plane has crashed into the World Trade Center....
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Some of Iain Banks best writing
- By Charles on 08-05-16
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Dead Air
- Narrated by: Peter Kenny
- Length: 11 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 23-01-14
- Language: English
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The Algebraist
- By: Iain M. Banks
- Narrated by: Anton Lesser
- Length: 7 hrs and 42 mins
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It is 4034 AD. Humanity has made it to the stars. Fassin Taak, a Slow Seer at the Court of the Nasqueron Dwellers, will be fortunate if he makes it to the end of the year. The Nasqueron Dwellers inhabit a gas giant on the outskirts of the galaxy, in a system awaiting its wormhole connection to the rest of civilisation.
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Jolly good
- By Paul on 17-05-06
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The Algebraist
- Narrated by: Anton Lesser
- Length: 7 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 09-02-06
- Language: English
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Leviathan Wakes
- The Expanse, Book 1
- By: James S. A. Corey
- Narrated by: Jefferson Mays
- Length: 19 hrs and 9 mins
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Humanity has colonized the planets - interstellar travel is still beyond our reach, but the solar system has become a dense network of colonies. But there are tensions - the mineral-rich outer planets resent their dependence on Earth and Mars and the political and military clout they wield over the Belt and beyond. Now, when Captain Jim Holden's ice miner stumbles across a derelict, abandoned ship, he uncovers a secret that threatens to throw the entire system into war.
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Even better than the TV show
- By Stuart on 01-10-17
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Leviathan Wakes
- The Expanse, Book 1
- Narrated by: Jefferson Mays
- Series: Expanse, Book 1
- Length: 19 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 15-01-15
- Language: English
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Matter
- Culture Series, Book 8
- By: Iain M. Banks
- Narrated by: Toby Longworth
- Length: 17 hrs and 57 mins
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In a world renowned, even within a galaxy full of wonders, a crime occurs within a war. For one man it means a desperate flight and a search for the one, maybe two, people who could clear his name. For his brother it means a life lived under constant threat of treachery and murder. And for their sister, even without knowing the full truth, it means returning to a place she'd thought abandoned forever. Only the sister is not what she once was.
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Popular Culture
- By Tim on 13-02-08
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- Culture Series, Book 8
- Narrated by: Toby Longworth
- Series: Culture, Book 8
- Length: 17 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 15-01-08
- Language: English
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The Hydrogen Sonata
- Culture, Book 10
- By: Iain M. Banks
- Narrated by: Peter Kenny
- Length: 17 hrs and 12 mins
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The Scavenger species are circling. It is, truly, the End Days for the Gzilt civilization. An ancient people, organized on military principles and yet almost perversely peaceful, the Gzilt helped set up the Culture 10,000 years earlier and were very nearly one of its founding societies, deciding not to join only at the last moment. Now they've made the collective decision to follow the well-trodden path of millions of other civilizations: They are going to Sublime, elevating themselves to a new and almost infinitely more rich and complex existence. Amid preparations though, the Regimental High Command is destroyed....
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Sublime
- By M on 27-10-12
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The Hydrogen Sonata
- Culture, Book 10
- Narrated by: Peter Kenny
- Series: Culture, Book 10
- Length: 17 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 04-10-12
- Language: English
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Against a Dark Background
- By: Iain M. Banks
- Narrated by: Peter Kenny
- Length: 18 hrs and 19 mins
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Sharrow was once the leader of a personality-attuned combat team in one of the sporadic little commercial wars in the civilisation based around the planet Golter. Now she is hunted by the Huhsz, a religious cult which believes that she is the last obstacle before the faith's apotheosis, and her only hope of escape is to find the last of the apocalyptically powerful Lazy Guns before the Huhsz find her.
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It's probably just me but...
- By Paul on 25-10-12
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Against a Dark Background
- Narrated by: Peter Kenny
- Length: 18 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 19-07-12
- Language: English
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Feersum Endjinn
- By: Iain M. Banks
- Narrated by: Peter Kenny
- Length: 9 hrs and 56 mins
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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.... And 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.
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Interesting story, great narration
- By V. Hooper on 30-06-13
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Feersum Endjinn
- Narrated by: Peter Kenny
- Length: 9 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 03-01-13
- Language: English
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- By: Iain M. Banks
- Narrated by: Toby Longworth
- Length: 5 hrs and 32 mins
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In a world renowned, even within a galaxy full of wonders, a crime occurs within a war. For one man it means a desperate flight and a search for the one, maybe two, people who could clear his name. For his brother it means a life lived under constant threat of treachery and murder. And for their sister, even without knowing the full truth, it means returning to a place she'd thought abandoned forever. Only the sister is not what she once was.
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An abridged version
- By mark on 03-07-16
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- Narrated by: Toby Longworth
- Length: 5 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 18-02-08
- Language: English
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HBRs 10 Must Reads on Building a Great Culture
- HBR's 10 Must Reads Series
- By: Harvard Business Review
- Narrated by: William Sarris, Norah Tocci
- Length: 6 hrs and 34 mins
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Your organization's culture can feel like something that has a life of its own; it's long-standing, inherited, and seemingly impermeable - in fact, a strong culture is often an obstacle to doing new things or going in new directions. But leaders are the stewards of a company's culture and have the power to shape it. The best leaders know that organizational culture is a fundamental and powerful management tool that can drive positive outcomes.
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Great - 10 succinct, short and interesting article
- By Jennifers Daddy on 12-10-20
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HBRs 10 Must Reads on Building a Great Culture
- HBR's 10 Must Reads Series
- Narrated by: William Sarris, Norah Tocci
- Series: HBR's 10 Must Reads series, Book 37
- Length: 6 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 12-11-19
- Language: English
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