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      Use of Weapons

      by Iain M. Banks
      Published
      Jan 1992
      Main Genre
      Space Opera Space Opera
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      512
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      Series
      The Culture Book 3

      About This Book

      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 and 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. It had once saved the woman's life by massacring her attackers in a particularly bloody manner. It believed the man to be a lost cause. But not even its machine could see the horrors in his past.

      Ferociously intelligent, both witty and horrific, Use of Weapons is a masterpiece of science fiction.

      The Culture Series
      Consider Phlebas
      The Player of Games
      Use of Weapons
      The State of the Art
      Excession
      Inversions
      Look to Windward
      Matter
      Surface Detail
      The Hydrogen Sonata

      Series Placement

      Book 3
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      Genres & Themes

      Genres

      Speculative Fiction

      Subgenres

      Space Opera

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      Mar 1992 Spectra (Bantam) ISBN13 9780553292244 ISBN10 0553292242
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