In Haspidus, a woman named Vosill, a foreigner from the distant archipelago nation of Drezen, serves as personal physician to King Quience, in spite of social mores that treat women as little more than property.
in 1998, Banks's latest novel steps back from the usual grand scale and ultra high-tech of his well-known "Culture" SF series (Excession, etc.) to the intrigue-ridden courts of a politically fragmented world. 'Jam-packed with extraordinary invention' Scotsmanįirst published in the U.K. 'Banks has created one of the most enduring and endearing visions of the future' Guardian 'Epic in scope, ambitious in its ideas and absorbing in its execution' Independent on Sunday 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. But his enemies strike more swiftly, and his means of combating them are more traditional. In another palace across the mountains, in the service of the regicidal Protector General, the chief bodyguard, too, has his enemies.
But then she also has more remedies to hand than those who wish her ill can know about. In the winter palace, the King's new physician has more enemies than she at first realises. Banks, a modern master of science fiction. The sixth Culture book from the awesome imagination of Iain M.
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