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Author: Iain M. Banks
Year: 1990
Type: NOVEL
Series: Culture
Series Number: 4
Wikipedia Entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Use_of_Weapons
ISFDB Record Number: 935
User Rating: 8.70 VOTE
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Variant Titles:
- La guerra di Zakalwe [Italian] (1991) - Iain M. Banks
- L'Usage des Armes [French] (1996) - Iain M. Banks
Awards:
- 1990 British Science Fiction Award - SF Novel (Nomination)
- 1991 Arthur C. Clarke Award - Shortlist (Nomination)
Publications:
- Use of Weapons, (1990, Iain M. Banks, publ. Orbit, 0-356-19160-5, £12.95, 379pp, hc) - [VERIFIED]
- Use of Weapons, (Mar 1991, Iain M. Banks, publ. Orbit, 0-7088-8350-8, £7.99, 371pp, tp)
- La guerra di Zakalwe, (Oct 1991, Iain M. Banks, publ. Editrice Nord (Cosmo Collana di Fantascienza #223), 15,000 Lit, 392pp, tp) Cover: Zeliko Pahec
- Use of Weapons, (Mar 1992, Iain M. Banks, publ. Orbit, 0-7088-8358-3, £5.99, 379pp, tp)
- Use of Weapons, (Apr 1992, Iain M. Banks, publ. Bantam Spectra, 0-553-29224-2, $4.99, 389pp, pb) Cover: Paul Youll - [VERIFIED]
- Use of Weapons, (1995, Iain M. Banks, publ. Orbit, 1-85723-135-X, £6.99, 371pp, tp) Cover: Mark Salwowski - [VERIFIED]
- Use of Weapons, (1995, Iain M. Banks, publ. Orbit, 1-85723-135-X, £5.99, 368pp, tp) - [VERIFIED]
- Use of Weapons, (Feb 1996, Iain M. Banks, publ. Orbit, 1-85723-135-X, £6.99, 371pp, tp) Cover: Mark Salwowski - [VERIFIED]
- L'Usage des Armes, (Nov 1996, Iain M. Banks, publ. Le Livre de Poche (Le Livre de Poche - Science Fiction #7189), 2-253-07189-7, 543pp, pb) Cover: Manchu - [VERIFIED]
- Use of Weapons, (1999, Iain M. Banks, publ. Orbit, 1-85723-135-X, £6.99, 371pp, tp) Cover: Mark Salwowski - [VERIFIED]
- Use of Weapons, (1999, Iain M. Banks, publ. Orbit, 1-85723-135-X, £6.99, 371pp, tp) Cover: Mark Salwowski - [VERIFIED]
- Use of Weapons, (2005, Iain M. Banks, publ. Orbit, 1-85723-135-X, £7.99, 411pp, tp)
- Use of Weapons, (2006, Iain M. Banks, publ. Orbit, 1-85723-135-X, £7.99, 411pp, tp)
- Use of Weapons, (2007, Iain M. Banks, publ. Orbit, 978-1-85723-135-9, £7.99, 411pp, tp) Cover: Blacksheep - [VERIFIED]
- Use of Weapons, (Jul 2008, Iain M. Banks, publ. Orbit (US), 978-0-316-03057-1, $12.99, 486pp, tp) Cover: Blacksheep
- Iain M. Banks Culture - 25th Anniversary Box Set, (Oct 2012, Iain M. Banks, publ. Orbit, 978-0-356-50209-0, £19.99, tp, omni)
Reviews:
- Review by Faren Miller (1990) in Locus, #355 August 1990
- Review by John Clute (1990) in Interzone, #41 November 1990
- Review by Paul Kincaid (1990) in Vector 158
- Review by Nicholas Mahoney (1991) in The Lyre, Spring 1991
- Review by Kathleen Ann Goonan (1992) in The New York Review of Science Fiction, October 1992, (1992)
- Review by Chris Amies (1992) in Vector 166
- Review by Tom Easton (1992) in Analog Science Fiction and Fact, August 1992
- Review by Joseph Nicholas (1992) in Paperback Inferno, 97
- Review by Norman Spinrad (1993) in Asimov's Science Fiction, April 1993
- Review by Damien Broderick and Paul Di Filippo (2012) in Science Fiction: The 101 Best Novels 1985-2010