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Consider Phlebas is the first book in Iain M. Banks long running Culture series of novels. It falls somewhere between a space opera and a travelogue to my mind.
There's certainly no shortage of action throughout the novel. It's pretty fast paced from beginning to end. But at the same time the story meanders a bit to show us the diversity of cultures in this universe.
It also has a strangely negative skew (at least by the standards of most SF)in that you could say the moral of the story is you prob ...more
There's certainly no shortage of action throughout the novel. It's pretty fast paced from beginning to end. But at the same time the story meanders a bit to show us the diversity of cultures in this universe.
It also has a strangely negative skew (at least by the standards of most SF)in that you could say the moral of the story is you prob ...more
"She opened her eyes, and the world had changed. The far hills were forever rolling brown and green waves with a crest of breaking white foam. The plain fumed with light; the pattern of pastureland and copses in the foothills looked like camouflage, moving but not moving, like a tall building seen against quick clouds. The forested ridges were buckled division in some huge busy tree-brain, and the snow- and ice-covered peaks about her had become vibrating sources of a light that was sound and sm
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I enjoyed just about everything about Consider Phlebas, except for the utter lack of an ending.
Many years later and I'm less bothered by the ending but also had less enjoyment throughout. ...more
Many years later and I'm less bothered by the ending but also had less enjoyment throughout. ...more
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