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# This summer, let the 'Culture' series carry you somewhere entirely unexpected

Step into the fractured mind of a man shaped by conflict, memory and manipulation. In the third of Iain M. Banks’s 'Culture' novels, Use of Weapons unravels across timelines and identities – challenging ideas of power, loyalty and the cost of war. Illustrations by Dániel Taylor capture the stark beauty and unease of Banks’s universe, while the edition’s sleek design echoes the novel’s intricate structure – where every chapter is a weapon and every memory a reckoning. Lose yourself in a world of shifting allegiances and haunting revelations – a place as vast and complex as the questions it raises.

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# New to the Culture? Start your journey here ...

### Volume One Consider Phlebas A brutal, breakneck entry into the 'Culture' universe – where a shape-shifting agent is tasked with retrieving a mind that could alter the course of an interstellar war. Fast-paced, provocative and unflinchingly violent, this is space opera at its most cinematic. Shop Now

### Volume Two The Player of Games Step deeper into the Culture as a master strategist is drawn into a society where power is won through an all-consuming game. A sharper, more personal mission that builds on the scale and tension of what came before. Shop Now

# Further into the Future ...

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Childhood’s End
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