We have updated our Privacy Policy Please take a moment to review it. By continuing to use this site, you agree to the terms of our updated Privacy Policy.
Newsletter Signup
By clicking ‘Sign Up,’ I acknowledge that I have read and agree to Hachette Book Group’s Privacy Policy and Terms of Use
Reviews
A labyrinthine tale of great conception and craft... A memorable array of characters... Transition is awash with energy and dark wit
An engrossing, futuristic fable with plenty to say about the here and now
Baroque, digressive, kinetic, teeming with big ideas and grand theories, it's a novel to get lost in... gripping
** 'Baroque, digressive, kinetic, teeming with big ideas and grand theories, it's a novel to get lost in . . . gripping
A highly readable and engrossing sci-fi thriller
Iain Banks is gifted with wonderful fluency and dizzying imaginative flair
** 'Stunning . . . tackles the issues of the responsibility of power, the moral implications of intervention and even the philosophical conundrum of what constitutes life itself. If only more contemporary fiction were like it . . . A book that makes you l
Brilliantly compulsive
One of Iain Banks's most imaginative and compelling novels yet
** 'One of Iain Banks's most imaginative and compelling novels yet
Transition is Banks at his exuberant, flamboyant, head-spinning best
Wildly imaginative... A corker of a thriller, a classic good versus bad tale, and one which the author uses to tackle some seriously big moral and philosophical issues - but always in his typically light-handed and darkly humorous fashion... A book that makes you think, one that makes you look at the world around you in a different light, and it's also a properly thrilling read