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The third Culture novel from the awesome imagination of Iain M. Banks, a modern master of science fiction. The man known as Cheradenine Zakalwe was one of Special Circumstances' foremost agents, changing the destiny of planets to suit the Culture through intrigue, dirty tricks or military action. The woman known as Diziet Sma had plucked him from obscurity and pushed him towards his present eminence, but despite all their dealings she did not know him as well as she thought. The drone known as Skaffen-Amtiskaw knew both of these people. It had once saved the woman's life by massacring her attackers in a particularly bloody manner. It believed the man to be a burnt-out case. But not even its machine intelligence could see the horrors in his past. Praise for the Culture series: 'Epic in scope, ambitious in its ideas and absorbing in its execution' Independent on Sunday 'Banks has created one of the most enduring and endearing visions of the future' Guardian 'Jam-packed with extraordinary invention' Scotsman 'Compulsive reading' Sunday Telegraph The Culture series: Consider Phlebas The Player of Games Use of Weapons The State of the Art Excession Inversions Look to Windward Matter Surface Detail The Hydrogen Sonata Other books by Iain M. Banks: Against a Dark Background Feersum Endjinn The Algebraist

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Use of Weapons is a science fictionnovel by Scottish writer Iain M. Banks, first published in 1990. It is the third novel in the Culture series.^[1]

Plot introduction[edit]

The narrative takes the form of a biography of a man called Cheradenine Zakalwe, who was born outside of the Culture but was recruited into it by Special Circumstances agent Diziet Sma to work as an operative intervening in less advanced civilizations. The novel recounts several of these interventions and Zakalwe's attempts to come to terms with his own past.^[1]

Plot summary[edit]

The book is made up of two narrative streams, interwoven in alternating chapters. The numbers of the chapters indicate which stream they belong to: one stream is numbered forward in words (One, Two ...), while the other is numbered in reverse with Roman numerals (XIII, XII ...). The story told by the former moves forward chronologically (as the numbers suggest) and tells a self-contained story, while the latter is written in reverse chronology with each chapter successively earlier in Zakalwe's life.^[2] Further complicating this structure is a prologue and epilogue set shortly after the events of the main narrative, and many flashbacks within the chapters.

The forward-moving narrative stream deals with the attempts of Diziet Sma and a drone named Skaffen-Amtiskaw (of Special Circumstances, a division of Contact) to re-enlist Zakalwe for another job. He must make contact with Beychae, an old colleague, in a politically unstable star system to further the aims of the Culture in the region. The payment that Zakalwe demands is the location of a woman, named Livueta. The backward-moving narrative stream describes earlier jobs that Zakalwe has performed for the Culture, ultimately returning to his pre-Culture childhood with his two sisters (Livueta and Darckense) and a boy his age named Elethiomel whose father has been imprisoned for treason.

As the two streams of the narrative conclude, it emerges that Elethiomel and Zakalwe commanded two opposing armies in a bloody civil war. Elethiomel took Darckense hostage before finally having her killed and her bones and skin made into a chair, to be sent to Zakalwe, who attempted suicide upon receiving it.

After the successful extraction of Beychae, a severely wounded Zakalwe is taken back to his homeworld to see Livueta. She rejects him and reveals that 'Cheradenine Zakalwe' is in fact Elethiomel who had stolen the real Zakalwe's identity after he had killed himself during the civil war. Elethiomel suffers an aneurysm and Skaffen-Amtiskaw performs surgery in an attempt to save him; it is left unspecified whether Elethiomel survives.

The epilogue is a continuation of the prologue. Whether the story told by these 'bookends' takes place prior to, or after, Zakalwe/Elethiomel suffers an aneurysm, is not immediately obvious. The clue that it takes place not long after is 'Zakalwe pushing his hand through long hair that isn't there any more …'^[3]

History[edit]

According to Banks, he wrote a much longer version of the book in 1974, long before any of his books (science fiction or otherwise) were published.^[4] The book had an even more complicated structure ('It was impossible to comprehend without thinking in six dimensions') but already introduced the Culture as background for the story of Cheradenine Zakalwe.^[4] Realising that his intended structure was a 'fatal flaw', not least because it demanded the story's climax appear exactly half-way through, Banks moved on to write Against a Dark Background instead.^[5] The book's cryptic acknowledgement credits friend and fellow science fiction author Ken MacLeod with the suggestion 'to argue the old warrior out of retirement' (to rewrite the old book) and further credits him with suggesting 'the fitness programme' (the new structure).^[4] MacLeod makes use of similar structures in his own novels, most notably in The Stone Canal.

Reception[edit]

In 1990 Use of Weapons was nominated for a British Science Fiction Association Award. In 2012 it was selected for Damien Broderick's book Science Fiction: The 101 Best Novels 1985-2010.^[6]

Commentary[edit]

Use of Weapons was voted the Best sci-fi film never made by the readers of The Register in 2011.^[7]

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See also[edit]

• Banks' Surface Detail, in which Zakalwe also appears under an alias.
• Banks' The State of the Art, in which Diziet Sma and the drone Skaffen-Amtiskaw are two of the main characters in the novella that lent its title to the story collection.

Bibliography[edit]

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• Use of Weapons, Iain M. Banks, London: Orbit, 1990, ISBN0-356-19160-5, ISBN0-7088-8358-3, ISBN0-7088-8350-8, ISBN1-85723-135-X (UK), ISBN0-553-29224-2 (US)

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References[edit]

1. ^ ^abGerald Jonas (1992-05-03). 'Science Fiction'. The New York Times. Retrieved 2008-05-15.
2. ^John Gribbin (1991-11-30). 'Review: Time waits for no author'. NewScientist. Retrieved 2008-05-15.
3. ^'Iain M Banks Q&A'. The Guardian. 11 Sep 2000. Retrieved 2019-09-26.
4. ^ ^abcNick Gevers. 'Cultured futurist Iain M. Banks creates an ornate utopia'. Interview. Science Fiction Weekly. Archived from the original on 2008-05-06. Retrieved 2008-05-15.
5. ^Use of Weapons by Iain M Banks, 4 Aug 2012, The Guardian
6. ^'Archived copy'. Archived from the original on 2013-04-26. Retrieved 2013-05-17.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
7. ^Use of Weapons declared best sci-fi film never made, By Lester Haines, 11 May 2011, The Register

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External links[edit]

• Use of Weapons title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• Use of Weapons Review, Review Date: 05 March 1997, SFF.net