by Iain M. Banks
My favorite book by Iain [M] Banks, who is one of my absolute favorite authors. It's in his "Culture" series of novels, but that's only shown by a couple of minor details. It's fully a stand-alone novel - sci-fi with a fantasy feel to it. I stayed up late-late-late last night finishing this - it was...
This is my favourite Culture novel...probably because it has the least amount of the Culture in it. The smarmy robots, superintelligent AI Minds, and laissez-faire posthumans are all cool and everything, but after you've hung out with them for a few volumes they get kinda same-y. Also, they never pi...
This is very much a Culture novel--it's just the backside of the tapestry Banks has woven in the other books. What happens when the objects of a first contact are unaware that it is a first contact? Meticulously composed and emotionally engrossing.
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