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Guy

Guy@bookwyrm.social

Joined 1 year, 3 months ago

UK. Read just about anything but have majored in fantasy and sci-fi as well as having an abnormal attraction to naval fiction.......

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Iain M. Banks, Iain Banks: The Player of Games (Paperback, 2008, Orbit)

The Culture - a human/machine symbiotic society - has thrown up many great Game Players, …

Almost gave up 60 pages in, glad I persevered

Another example of a Culture book that isn't really about the Culture. Despite my initial reservations I thoroughly enjoyed it. I can't say anything entirely unexpected happened but everything hung together well.

Iain M. Banks, Iain Banks: The Player of Games (Paperback, 2008, Orbit)

The Culture - a human/machine symbiotic society - has thrown up many great Game Players, …

Almost gave up 60 pages in, glad I persevered

Another example of a Culture book that isn't really about the Culture. Despite my initial reservations I thoroughly enjoyed it. I can't say anything entirely unexpected happened but everything hung together well.

Iain M. Banks: Inversions (Paperback, 2007, Pocket)

In the winter palace, the King’s new physician has more enemies than she at first …

Easy reading but not a classic culture book

Is it really a culture book at all? It's certainly very different to it's predecessors and while the two stories are engaging they shed no light on the culture or it's workings

reviewed Excession by Iain M. Banks (Culture, #5)

Iain M. Banks: Excession (Paperback, 1997, Orbit)

Two and a half millennia ago, the artifact appeared in a remote corner of space, …

Great interweaving of "Mind" and "Human" storylines

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Loved the story and the inter Mind relationships thought keeping track of their names was challenging.

The living being stories weave in and out of the Mind lead theme very well. My favourite culture book so far.