Use of Weapons is an addition to Banks' Culture novels, set in the same universe as Consider Phlebas and Player of Games. It is a more psychological novel than the others, with less dramatic action, but offers a characteristic mix of technological ideas and light humour, as well as some serious ideas about the ethics of war. The story is black even for Banks, with a characteristically bleak ending.

May 1992

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