Surface Detail
by:
Iain M. Banks (author)
Format: kindle
ASIN: B00C0ZZ5NK
Publish date: October 28th 2010
Publisher: Orbit
Pages no: 640
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Adventure,
Science Fiction Fantasy,
Novels,
Science Fiction,
Science,
Technology,
Space,
Culture,
Space Opera,
Speculative Fiction
Series: Culture (#9)
First things first: does anyone else picture Demeisen as David Tennant? Gaunt, gangling, fast-talking, humorous, with a tendency to switch within moments from cheerful to scarily intense, and with a jaunty enthusiasm for sharing viewpoints that...uh...have a tendency to fall outside the usual moral ...
Iain M. Banks was taken away from us too soon. He was a genius of prose, structure, characterization and all kinds of SFnal ideas (by all accounts his mainstream fiction – published under the name of Iain Banks and [b: Altered Carbon|40445|Altered Carbon (Takeshi Kovacs, #1)|Richard K. Morgan|https:...
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Brilliant. Maybe one of my favorite novels, EVER.
There seems to be an epidemic of weak editing these days. Surface Detail is sadly not immune, either on the typographical (words and punctuation missing or misplaced) or stylistic (poor word choice, lack of clarity) front. It's not a major impediment, but it's disappointing.Iain M. Banks' Culture bo...
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