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| | 1. |  | Transition
from Orbit
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I had this book's release date on my calendar... I bought it immediately when it was released. I set aside my reading list and read it immediately. Transitions is very different from the Culture novels, and that's fine with me. The concepts employed by Banks, his writing skills, and the POV methods... more info
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3.5 / 5.0
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| | 2. |  | Use of Weapons
from Orbit
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Top notch story. I felt more connected with the characters in this story than most of the others in the Culture Series. When the truth finally comes out at the end of the story, I truly felt sad.
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4.5 / 5.0
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| | 3. |  | Against a Dark Background
from Orbit
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Lazy Gun story.
On a planet that is out of the way, and so prone to historical cycles isolated to its own environs--the story of a soldier.
That is, the place can have collapses, rises and falls, etc.
The veteran in question is after a powerful weapons artifact. Because of the... more info
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4.5 / 5.0
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| | 4. |  | The Player of Games
from Orbit
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All in all I enjoyed this book, but it did take awhile to get started. It was somewhat slow to start, but Iain M. Banks does paint some beautiful scenes.
I loved the book "Consider Phelbas" because one it was action packed. Also the main charecter in the book is awesome. Kinda like an Indiana... more info
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4.5 / 5.0
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| | 5. |  | Matter
from Orbit
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I'm not going to summerize the plot; there've been many good descriptions. What got me full of trepidation was criticisms about pacing and how at the end everything was rushed to an unsatisfactory conclusion, as if the author was tired of his creation.
Well I just finished it and it's one of... more info
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3.5 / 5.0
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| | 6. |  | Consider Phlebas
from Orbit
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While this book was full of lots of interesting ideas and some fun action sequences, I found the main character unlikeable and that brought the level of enjoyment down quite a bit for me. Horza--and those around him--go through one hellish scenario after another. Since I wasn't rooting for Horza (or... more info
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4.0 / 5.0
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| | 7. |  | Excession
from Spectra
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One of the more entertaining Banks outings, that is, if you don't mind the usual tendency to Mind suicide he has a thing for.
A young (for this setting) woman who aspires to Culture Contact and Special Circumstancesness is given an opportunity by a drone long involved with their family to get... more info
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4.0 / 5.0
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| | 8. |  | The State Of The Art
from Night Shade Books
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I guess that's to be expected in a group of short stories written over many years as Banks fleshed out his Culture. Some interesting short stories, but you can also see how his writing got more sophisticated as time went on. A good read if you want to get some more Culture--Banks' essay at the end... more info
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4.0 / 5.0
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| | 9. |  | The Algebraist
from Night Shade Books
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This book is almost perfect. The writing is is crisp and descriptive. The story unique one for a (very) well-trodden field. The protagonist someone easy to identify with. The issue, finding the algebraic equation that unlocks a mystery held secret for 8 billion years, is very appealing.
The... more info
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4.0 / 5.0
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| | 10. |  | Inversions
from Pocket
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The scale of Iain M Bank's epic Culture books is, well, ...epic is the right word here. The scale often is galactic, with a time scale sometimes in the billions of years, and the fantastic technologies the norm rather than the exception.
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4.0 / 5.0
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