- Fiction, Amnesia, Near death experiences
Log it
Sign in to log this.
Character
Contemporary, grave, spare and earnest.
- contemporarynostalgic
- gravecomic
- sparerichly built
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
Who loves it, who doesn't
No profiled raters yet.
Ask the title
A yes-or-no question, answered from what people wrote here, on TMDB and on Wikipedia. Never made up.
Reviews
No reviews yet.
About the book
- Author
- Iain Banks
- First published
- 1986
- Pages
- 288
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group Limited, Argo, HarperPrism
- Editions
- 17
- Language
- und, English, French
- ISBN
- 9781899598571
Where to read
Libraries first: a card gets you most books for nothing. Each opens that service’s page for this title.
On Open Library, 11 have read it and 18 want to.
“TRAPPED. CRUSHED. WEIGHT COMING FROM ALL DIrections, entangled in the wreckage (you have to become one with the machine).”
Iain Banks (16 February 1954 – 9 June 2013) was a Scottish author. 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. In 2008, The Times named Banks in their list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945". Source: Wikipedia
Similar in taste
Closest on the same fourteen dimensions, from everything scored on Tastebuds Other media included when they land close.
Los renglones torcidos de Dios 197984% alikeBoth grave, contemporary, spare.
Build Your House Around My Body 202182% alikeBoth contemporary, grave, spare.
Version Control 201681% alikeBoth contemporary, grave, classical in form.
Devil House 202280% alikeBoth contemporary, grave, spare.
The Devil and Miss Prym 200080% alikeBoth contemporary, grave, earnest.
The Zahir 200679% alikeBoth contemporary, grave, spare.
Who is Maud Dixon? 202179% alikeBoth contemporary, grave, spare.
A House at the Bottom of a Lake 201678% alikeBoth contemporary, grave, classical in form.
The Artifice Girl 202382% alikeFilm · Both contemporary, grave, spare.- Tallahassee 200280% alikeMusic · Both grave, contemporary, spare.