Transition is the latest book written by Iain Banks, Banks is a Scottish author who writes 'contempory literary critique' books as Iain Banks and sci-fi books as Iain M Banks. He is famous for his Wasp factory under the Iain Banks nomenclature and as Inversions as Iain M Banks. Here he creates a novel in which people can move between parallel universe Earths and as such it sounds like a Iain M Banks novel but is written as Iain Banks placing it in the 'social commentary' angle of Iain's writing. The book is written as paragraphs and pages all in the first person perspective of a range of characters, they range from the obscure in terms of patient 8262 who ...  Read the complete review

First of all, I think this book does deserve a trigger warning for anyone who is uncomfortable with the subject of rape. There is a slightly graphic rape scene in the book and another rather harrowing account of a character's experiences and whilst all of this is three chapters in the book, which as far as I can understand, have absolutely no relevance to the plot so could easily be skipped, may be off-putting for some readers. 'Transistion' is almost standard Iain Bank's fare. It is his latest modern fiction novel concerning half a million unreliable narrators, a vague and sinister plot by some evil multi-dimensional corporation, more sex than an evening in ...  Read the complete review

Transition by Iain Banks is one of his finest creations. I bought the book online from Waterstones for about £10. It's paper-back, a bit larger than the usual size and is 416 pages long. The cover is a metallic black/grey with a picture of a plane above and an eagle below. The word 'Transition' is written in a luminous green/yellow on the front, its striking, and compels you to open and begin reading. The Blurb reads; 'A world that hangs suspended between triumph and catastrophe, between the dismantling of the Wall and the fall of the Twin Towers, frozen in the shadow of suicide terrorism and global financial collapse, such a world requires a firm ...  Read the complete review