Inversions

, #6

400 pages

English language

Published May 6, 2001 by Pocket.

ISBN:
978-0-7434-1196-7
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Inversions is a science fiction novel by Scottish writer Iain M. Banks, first published in 1998. Banks has said "Inversions was an attempt to write a Culture novel that wasn't."

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Inversions

"Inversions" est le sixième tome du cycle de la Culture de Iain M. Banks, mais c'est un roman qui me semble un peu à part dans le cycle. La science-fiction y est très discrète, on pourrait presque croire lire un roman de fantasy classique.

Après avoir loué le rôle fondamental joué par les Intelligences Artificielles dans le récit dans "Excession", le roman précédent du cycle, j'aurais pu être déçu par celui-ci, tant il pourrait apparaître comme son exact opposé. En effet, ce roman met en scène une planète où la civilisation et la technologie sont comparables à celles de l'Europe à la fin de l'ère médiévale.

Le livre alterne des chapitres mettant en scène deux narrateurs qui nous proposent de suivre deux personnages, une doctoresse et un garde du corps, chacun dans l'entourage d'un souverain différent sur le même continent. C'est une plongée dans deux vies de cour différentes, avec …

reviewed Inversions by Iain M. Banks (Culture, #6)

beautifully spare

A morality question of harm volleyed between players in broadly medieval conflict from the personal to all out war. Reads as homage to LeGuin than most Banks: while there's only one late line to connect this explicitly to the Culture universe (give or take), it's most clearly asking the same questions.

reviewed Inversions by Iain M. Banks (Culture, #6)

Review of 'Inversions' on 'Goodreads'

Nuance and adventure

This book is a complete departure from the previous book in the series, Excession. It is really two seemingly unrelated stories told from the perspective of an apprentice, on one hand, and an assassin on the other. The book is a remarkable work and I even learned a new word. Well worth reading. Just don't expect to read about Minds and advanced technology. Well, not really.

reviewed Inversions by Iain M. Banks (Culture, #6)

Review of 'Inversions' on 'Goodreads'

The more I think about this book, the more I feel it is one of my favorite Culture books, even though some argue it isn't truly a Culture book at all. It's a... smaller story, in some ways, more personal. It's slow to get going. The ending may leave you with more questions than answers. In a way it's a long exploration of one of the central questions of the Culture -- the question of whether, and how, to meddle in the affairs of other civilizations -- but (perhaps the biggest inversion of all) it feels more importantly like a story of two very real people, and the small things they do that affect the people near them. Culture books have always told vast stories via human relationships, but Inversions tightens that focus even further. It has me thinking about perspective, about love and loyalty, about the stories we tell …

reviewed Inversions by Iain M. Banks (Culture, #6)

Review of 'Inversions' on 'Goodreads'

This is perhaps the easiest culture novel to identify with.

Told from the point of view of a native experiencing the intervention of special circumstances, in is easy to identify with him and considering that the intervention is taking place in a civilization at the late medieval stage of development, it is easy to put yourself in the shoes of people from a more advanced culture as they attempt to intervene.

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