Reception
Inversions won the 2004 Italia Science Fiction Award for the Best International Novel.
The American edition of Look to Windward was listed by the editors of SF Site as one of the "Best SF and Fantasy Books of 2001" after the UK edition had missed out by just one place the previous year.
Use of Weapons was listed in Damien Broderick's book Science Fiction: The 101 Best Novels 1985-2010.
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