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Consider Phlebas - Interlude in darkness
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Brad
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Jun 09, 2011 03:54PM
This should keep y'all going until Saturday.
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I really loved this little interlude. The Mind fascinates me, particularly its thirst for survival. Juxtaposed with Horza's killing of the ship Mind in the preceding chapter, I imagine Banks was really trying to drive home the idea that these minds are not just sentient but alive.
The mind really came off sounding like a small rodent burrowing in an abandoned hole...this is what I am liking about this book, the way all the AI characters are personalized
I also loved this interlude and agree with Brad that the contrast to Horza's 'murder' of the shuttle's Mind drives home the life of the AIs.
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