Title: Use of Weapons

Title: Use of Weapons Title Record # 935
Author: Iain M. Banks
Date: 1990-00-00
Type: NOVEL
Series: Culture
Series Number: 4
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Language: English
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Translations

Year	Language	Title
1991	Italian	La guerra di Zakalwe
1992^ⓘTranslated by Irene Bonhorst. The translation was 2004 revised by Rainer Michael Rahn.	German	Einsatz der Waffen [as by Iain Banks]
1992^ⓘTranslated by Hélène Collon	French	L'usage des armes
2006^ⓘTranslated by Totth Benedek	Hungarian	Fegyver a kézben
2016^ⓘTranslated by Gabriel Stoian	Romanian	Folosirea armelor

Awards

Place	Year and Award	Category
Nomination	1990 BSFA	Best Novel
Finalists	1991 Clarke	Best Science Fiction Novel
Win (as Einsatz der Waffen)	1993 Kurd Lasswitz Prize	Bester ausländischer SF-Roman
Nomination (as L'usage des armes)	1993 Imaginaire	Roman étranger
56 ^ⓘ19 votes.	2012 Locus Online	20th Century Science Fiction Novel

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Title	Date	Author/Editor	Publisher/Pub. Series	ISBN/Catalog ID	Price	Pages	Format	Type	Cover Artist
Use of Weapons	1990-00-00	Iain M. Banks	Orbit	0-356-19160-5	£12.95^?£: UK pound. ISO code: GBP	379	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel	Keith Scaife
Use of Weapons	1991-03-00	Iain M. Banks	Orbit	0-7088-8350-8	£7.99^?£: UK pound. ISO code: GBP	371	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	novel	Keith Scaife
La guerra di Zakalwe	1991-10-00	Iain M. Banks	Editrice Nord (Cosmo Collana di Fantascienza #223)		Lit 15,000^?Lit: Italian lira. ISO code: ITL in 1861-1999	392	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	novel	Zeliko Pahec
Einsatz der Waffen	1992-00-00	Iain Banks	Heyne (Heyne Science Fiction & Fantasy #4903)	3-453-05826-7	DM 14.80^?DM: German (Deutsche) mark. ISO code: DEM in 1948-1999	559	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel	Keith Scaife
L'usage des armes	1992-02-00	Iain M. Banks	Robert Laffont (Ailleurs et demain)	2-221-07169-7		420	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	novel
Use of Weapons	1992-03-00	Iain M. Banks	Orbit	0-7088-8358-3	£5.99^?£: UK pound. ISO code: GBP	379	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	novel
Use of Weapons	1992-04-00	Iain M. Banks	Bantam Spectra	0-553-29224-2	$4.99^?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD	389	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel	Paul Youll
Use of Weapons	1994-00-00	Iain M. Banks	Orbit	1-85723-135-X	£5.99^?£: UK pound. ISO code: GBP	368+ [2]	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel	Keith Scaife
Use of Weapons	1994-00-00	Iain M. Banks	Orbit	1-85723-135-X	£5.99^?£: UK pound. ISO code: GBP	368+ [2]	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	novel	Keith Scaife
Use of Weapons	1995-00-00	Iain M. Banks	Orbit	1-85723-135-X	£6.99^?£: UK pound. ISO code: GBP	371	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	novel	Mark Salwowski
Use of Weapons	1995-00-00	Iain M. Banks	Orbit	1-85723-135-X	£5.99^?£: UK pound. ISO code: GBP	368	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	novel	Keith Scaife
Use of Weapons	1996-00-00	Iain M. Banks	Orbit	1-85723-135-X	£6.99^?£: UK pound. ISO code: GBP	371	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	novel	Mark Salwowski
Use of Weapons	1996-02-00	Iain M. Banks	Orbit	1-85723-135-X	£6.99^?£: UK pound. ISO code: GBP	371	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	novel	Mark Salwowski
L'usage des armes	1996-11-00	Iain M. Banks	Le Livre de Poche (Le Livre de Poche - Science Fiction #7189)	2-253-07189-7		543	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel	Manchu
Use of Weapons	1998-00-00	Iain M. Banks	Orbit	1-85723-135-X	£6.99^?£: UK pound. ISO code: GBP	368	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	novel	Mark Salwowski
Use of Weapons	1999-00-00	Iain M. Banks	Orbit	1-85723-135-X	£6.99^?£: UK pound. ISO code: GBP	371	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	novel	Mark Salwowski
L'usage des armes	2001-01-00	Iain M. Banks	Le Livre de Poche (Le Livre de Poche - Science Fiction #7189)	2-253-07189-7	F48.00^?F: French frank. ISO code: FRF in 1960-1999	542	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel	Manchu
Das Kultur-Spiel	2004-00-00	Iain Banks	Heyne (Heyne Science Fiction & Fantasy #7048)	3-453-52006-8	€8.95^?€: Euro. ISO code: EUR	941	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	omni	Chris Moore
Use of Weapons	2005-00-00	Iain M. Banks	Orbit	1-85723-135-X	£7.99^?£: UK pound. ISO code: GBP	411	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	novel	Blacksheep
L'usage des armes	2005-10-00	Iain M. Banks	Robert Laffont (Ailleurs et demain)	2-221-10549-4	€21.00^?€: Euro. ISO code: EUR	413	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	novel	Jackie Paternoster
Fegyver a kézben	2006-00-00	Iain M. Banks	Agave Könyvek^?Agave Konyvek	963-7118-27-6	Ft 2,480^?Ft: Hungarian forint. ISO code: HUF	425	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel	Kuszkó Rajmund
Use of Weapons	2006-00-00	Iain M. Banks	Orbit	1-85723-135-X	£7.99^?£: UK pound. ISO code: GBP	411	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	novel	Blacksheep
Use of Weapons	2007-00-00	Iain M. Banks	Orbit	978-1-85723-135-9	£7.99^?£: UK pound. ISO code: GBP	411	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	novel	Blacksheep
Use of Weapons	2008-07-00	Iain M. Banks	Orbit (US)	978-0-316-03057-1	$12.99^?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD	486	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	novel	Blacksheep
Use of Weapons	2008-09-04	Iain M. Banks	Orbit	978-0-7481-1008-7	£5.99^?£: UK pound. ISO code: GBP		ebook^?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.	novel	Blacksheep
Use of Weapons	2008-12-22	Iain M. Banks	Orbit (US)	978-0-316-06879-6	$9.99^?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD		ebook^?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.	novel	Blacksheep
Das Kultur-Spiel	2012-00-00	Iain Banks	Random House	978-3-641-08683-1			ebook^?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.	omni
Use of Weapons	2012-00-00	Iain M. Banks	Orbit	978-1-85723-135-9	£8.99^?£: UK pound. ISO code: GBP	411	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	novel	Blacksheep
Iain M. Banks Culture - 25th Anniversary Box Set	2012-10-04	Iain M. Banks	Orbit	978-0-356-50209-0	£19.99^?£: UK pound. ISO code: GBP		tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	omni
The Culture	2012-11-06	Iain M. Banks	Orbit (US)	978-0-316-22508-3	$29.99^?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD	1472	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	omni
Use of Weapons	2013-04-02	Iain M. Banks	Hachette Audio				digital audio download^?Digital recording in any format that is downloaded directly from the Internet. This category includes podcasts.	novel	Blacksheep
Folosirea armelor	2016-09-28	Iain M. Banks	Editura Nemira (Nautilus)	978-606-758-623-7	Lei 47^?Lei: Romanian leu. ISO codes: ROK in 1947-1952, ROL in 1952-2005, RON since 2005	496	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	novel
Use of Weapons	2020-00-00	Iain M. Banks	Subterranean Press	978-1-59606-962-6	$80.00^?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD	vi+ 437	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel	Blacksheep
Use of Weapons	2023-11-30	Iain M. Banks	Orbit	978-0-356-52165-7	£10.99^?£: UK pound. ISO code: GBP	432	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	novel
Use of Weapons	date unknown	Iain M. Banks	Orbit	978-1-85723-135-9	£8.99^?£: UK pound. ISO code: GBP	411	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	novel	Blacksheep
Use of Weapons	date unknown	Iain M. Banks	Orbit (US)	978-0-316-03057-1	$12.99^?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD	486	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	novel	Blacksheep
Use of Weapons	date unknown	Iain M. Banks	Orbit (US)	978-0-316-03057-1	$16.00^?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD	499	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	novel	Blacksheep

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Reviews

Review by Faren Miller (1990) in Locus, #355 August 1990
Review by John Clute (1990) in Interzone, November 1990
Review by Paul Kincaid (1990) in Vector 158
Review by Colin Greenland (1990) in Foundation, #50 Autumn 1990 , reprinted in:
[French] Yellow Submarine, #95 (1992)
Review by Nicholas Mahoney (1991) in The Lyre, Spring 1991
Review by Damien Broderick (1992) in SF Commentary, #71/72
Review by Chris Amies (1992) in Vector 166
Review by Thomas A. Easton [as by Tom Easton] (1992) in Analog Science Fiction and Fact, August 1992
Review by Joseph Nicholas (1992) in Paperback Inferno, #97
Review by Kathleen Ann Goonan (1992) in The New York Review of Science Fiction, October 1992
Review by Glen Engel-Cox [as by Glen E. Cox] (1993) in First Impressions, Installment Four
Review by Norman Spinrad (1993) in Asimov's Science Fiction, April 1993
Review [French] by
Stéphane Nicot^?Stephane Nicot
(1997) in Galaxies, #4
Review by Damien Broderick and Paul Di Filippo (2012) in Science Fiction: The 101 Best Novels 1985-2010 , reprinted in:
Science Fiction: The 101 Best Novels 1985-2010 (2012)

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