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Use of Weapons, 24, Remembrance, Twelve

Published 11/06/24

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Published 11/06/24

Use of Weapons, 23, Remembrance, III

Published 09/20/24

Use of Weapons, 21, Remembrance, IV

Published 07/05/24

Use of Weapons, 20, Remembrance, Ten

Zakalwe throws away his weapon, has a philosphical discussion, and fixes for a fight

Published 05/30/24

Use of Weapons, 19, An Outing, V

This is Zakalwe's brain on drugs!

Published 04/26/24

Use of Weapons, 18, An Outing, Nine

Zakalwe gets in a lot of fights, but his love of the old plasma rifle finally pays off!

Published 04/05/24

Use of Weapons, 17, An Outing, VI

Zakalwe tries his hand at writing poetry in an idyllic rural setting, but it's not as nice as he'd hoped.

Published 03/17/24

Use of Weapons, 16, An Outing, Eight

Zakalwe plays James Bond again, Diziet gets distracted, and our hero goes to an interesting party which he does not enjoy.

Published 03/05/24

Use of Weapons, 15, An Outing, VII

As a flashback from the worst day of Zakalwe's life we get the origin story!

Published 01/28/24

Use of Weapons, 14, An Outing, Seven

Agent Zakalwe makes a big splash while trying to play the part of James Bond.

Published 01/06/24

Use of Weapons, 13, An Outing, VIII

Zakalwe gets stuck in a storm, takes a long hard look at himself, argues with an idiot, and sees some very strange things.

Published 01/02/24

Use of Weapons, 12, An Outing, Six

Zakalwe spends a lot of time being rude to GSV minds, but does receive a lovely gift!

Published 12/07/23

Use of Weapons, 11, An Outing, IX

Zakalwe falls in love, and dreams about the ghost of the real Zakalwe.

Published 11/17/23

Use of Weapons, 10, The Good Soldier, Five

Zakalwe seems suspiciously happy to run away from his problems, but they have a nice time at the beach.

Published 10/24/23

Use of Weapons, 9, The Good Soldier, X

We find out what happened to Zakalwe on Fohls. It was not nice.

Published 10/01/23

Use of Weapons, 8, The Good Soldier, Four

Sma and Skaffen recover from a party and go for an island cruise. Meanwhile The Culture goes nuclear around them!

Published 09/16/23

Use of Weapons, 7, The Good Soldier, XI

Zakalwe goes to the beach, and we ask, is he a Gary Stu?

Published 08/27/23

Use of Weapons, 6, The Good Soldier, Three

Skaffen and Sma go to a party on the Xenophobe and have a fight....

Published 07/28/23

Use of Weapons, 5, The Good Soldier, XII

Zakalwe has a less pleasant visit to a castle and we ask if any aristocrat can be a good aristocrat?

Published 07/15/23

Use of Weapons, 4, The Good Soldier, Two

Diziet gets out of bed and the Culture goes to the wild west to see just how scary a drone can be!

Published 07/11/23

Use of Weapons, 3, The Good Soldier, XIII

In which we briefly meet an Ethnarch, and get a good look at just how stone cold cool this Zakalwe cat can be!

Published 06/16/23

Use of Weapons, 2, The Good Soldier, One

We meet Diziet Sma and spend a lot of time on how exactly she likes to bone. And The Culture seems to be putting a lot more resources into this caper than we've seen before...

Published 05/29/23

Use of Weapons, 1, Slight Mechanical Destruction, and Prologue

We start The Big One for Banks fans, a great whiskey is reviewed, and the scene is set for a wild ride with fortunately short chapters!

Published 05/20/23

The Player of Games, 4, The Passed Pawn

We wrap up Elon Musk's favourite book with a short chapter that ties up a couple of loose ends and really gets into non-binary love.

Published 04/28/23