Matter
by:
Iain M. Banks (author)
Trade edition paperback, fine
Trade edition paperback, fine
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781841494180 (1841494186)
Publish date: January 2008
Publisher: Orbit
Pages no: 593
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Adventure,
Science Fiction Fantasy,
Science Fiction,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Space,
Culture,
Space Opera,
Speculative Fiction,
Politics,
Government
Series: Culture (#8)
Rosado mp3. Round the lake.Thinking of Mr Banks and his sad news.Love the ship named 'Do Not Try This At Home'#83 TBR Busting 2013TR Consider PhlebasTR The Player3* The State of Art4* Look to Winward3' Matter4* The AlgebraistAs Iain No Em Banks3* The Wasp Factory1* The Steep Approach to Garbadale ak...
[Swirling patterns. Weird, vaguely familiar, futuristic music. Is it the Doctor Who theme tune? Slowly the camera pulls back to show the title Celebrity Death Match Special: Blackadder versus The Cultureand we realize it's an unusual setting of the Blackadder song.Dissolve to ROWAN ATKINSON and HUGH...
Well, that ending was abrupt. Why aren't more Banks' books made into movies? They're full of epic visuals and action. Too many epic visuals? Matter is a little bit of the Cthulu mythos, only with nukes, which endears it to me more than I might otherwise have liked it. Just as cracking a read as any ...
There is an interview at the back of this book in which Banks says he was thinking of giving up writing SF but he set himself the task of creating a completely new context for a novel; The Algebraist, Banks' best novel for years resulted. With Matter Banks returns to the Culture - and that is a mi...
Another case where I really wish we had the option of a half-star -- this is a 3.5.In terms of Banks other Culture novels I'd rate it just below the original, Consider Phlebas, and Player of Games.
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