Inversions

, #6

400 pages

English language

Published May 6, 2001 by Pocket.

ISBN:
978-0-7434-1196-7
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4 stars (52 reviews)

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

5 stars

"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

4 stars

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)

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5 stars

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.

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