{"product_id":"feersum-endjinn","title":"Feersum Endjinn","description":"\u003cp\u003eA superb standalone novel from the awesome imagination of Iain M. Banks, a master of modern science fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCount Sessine is about to die for the very last time...\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChief Scientist Gadfium is about to receive the mysterious message she has been waiting for from the Plain of Sliding Stones...\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd Bascule the Teller, in search of an ant, is about to enter the chaos of the crypt...\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd everything is about to change...\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor this is the time of the encroachment and, although the dimming sun still shines on the vast, towering walls of Serehfa Fastness, the end is close at hand. The King knows it, his closest advisers know it, yet sill they prosecute the war against the clan Engineers with increasing savagery.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe crypt knows it too; so an emissary has been sent, an emissary who holds the key to all their futures.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePraise for Iain M. Banks:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Epic in scope, ambitious in its ideas and absorbing in its execution' Independent on Sunday\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Banks has created one of the most enduring and endearing visions of the future' Guardian\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Jam-packed with extraordinary invention' Scotsman\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Compulsive reading' Sunday Telegraph\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Culture series:\u003cbr\u003eConsider Phlebas\u003cbr\u003eThe Player of Games\u003cbr\u003eUse of Weapons\u003cbr\u003eThe State of the Art\u003cbr\u003eExcession\u003cbr\u003eInversions\u003cbr\u003eLook to Windward\u003cbr\u003eMatter\u003cbr\u003eSurface Detail\u003cbr\u003eThe Hydrogen Sonata\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOther books by Iain M. Banks:\u003cbr\u003eAgainst a Dark Background\u003cbr\u003eFeersum Endjinn\u003cbr\u003eThe Algebraist\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Iain M. Banks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44808931180713,"sku":"9781857232738","price":7.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0424\/9518\/0962\/files\/9781857232738.jpg?v=1729840959","url":"https:\/\/roseyravelstonbooks.com.au\/products\/feersum-endjinn","provider":"RoseyRavelston Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}