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Consider Phlebas - Iain M. Banks
Consider Phlebas
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"Dazzlingly original." -- Daily Mail"Gripping, touching and funny." -- TLSThe war raged across the galaxy. Billions had died, billions more were doomed. Moons, planets, the very stars themselves, faced destruction, cold-blooded, brutal, and worse, random. The Idirans fought for their Faith; the... show more
"Dazzlingly original." -- Daily Mail"Gripping, touching and funny." -- TLSThe war raged across the galaxy. Billions had died, billions more were doomed. Moons, planets, the very stars themselves, faced destruction, cold-blooded, brutal, and worse, random. The Idirans fought for their Faith; the Culture for its moral right to exist. Principles were at stake. There could be no surrender. Within the cosmic conflict, an individual crusade. Deep within a fabled labyrinth on a barren world, a Planet of the Dead proscribed to mortals, lay a fugitive Mind. Both the Culture and the Idirans sought it. It was the fate of Horza, the Changer, and his motley crew of unpredictable mercenaries, human and machine, actually to find it, and with it their own destruction.
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Format: paperback
ISBN: 9780316005388 (031600538X)
ASIN: 031600538X
Publisher: Orbit
Pages no: 527
Edition language: English
Series: Culture (#1)
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N.A. Ratnayake
N.A. Ratnayake rated it
1.0 Consider Phlebas
Such high hopes. Dropped it after chapter 3 / page 50. Characters and dialogue are beyond crap, I'm not even sure i really know what's going on or why i should care, and i actively dislike the protagonist. Reads like a cheaply made Saturday morning cartoon. People tell me the other books in the Cult...
Musings/Träumereien/Devaneios
Musings/Träumereien/Devaneios rated it
4.0 Post-scarcity Society: "Consider Phlebas" by Iain M. Banks
When Banks died, I was in the process of starting one of my usual re-reads of the Culture novels. I decided it was not the time to start that re-read. I said to myself, “I’ll just wait another couple more years.” It’s now 2017, and I’m not sure I’ll re-read them now in one large gulp. I want to be a...
Kaethe
Kaethe rated it
1.0 Consider Phlebas - Iain M. Banks 
Adequate space adventure but Banks enjoys elaborating on the grossest parts, and I do not. I like the Culture, but there is just too much nauseating gore. So, I feel like I can safely scratch the rest off the List. Library copy
DrAwkto Reads
DrAwkto Reads rated it
3.0 Consider Phlebas
Slow start but it got better
Aerin
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3.0 Review: Consider Phlebas, by Iain M. Banks
IV. Death By Water Phlebas the Phoenician, a fortnight dead, Forgot the cry of gulls, and the deep seas swell And the profit and loss. A current under sea Picked his bones in whispers. As he rose and fell He passed the stages of his age and youth Enterin...
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