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Consider Phlebas
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Eoghann Irving
Aug 13, 2013 rated it really liked it
Shelves: science-fiction
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
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