Looking Out To Sea

The first Iain M Banks novel I read was Against a Dark Background. It lives up to its name of being suitably miserable in outlook, as well as being an awesome book. One of the many outlandish inventions, in this case from the latter part of the book, is a monocycle vehicle described as (if my memory is not too addled) a “tank killer”. It appears on the front cover of the old-style books. This guy’s invention, the RIOT wheel, is as close as I’ve seen anyone get without the futuristic go-anywhere capabilities.