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Consider Phlebas
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The first book in Iain M. Banks's seminal science fiction series, The Culture. Consider Phlebas introduces readers to the utopian conglomeration of human and alien races that explores the nature of war, morality, and the limitless bounds of mankind's imagination.
The 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.
The Culture Series
Consider Phlebas
The Player of Games
Use of Weapons
The State of the Art
Excession
Inversions
Look to Windward
Matter
Surface Detail
The Hydrogen Sonata
The 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.
The Culture Series
Consider Phlebas
The Player of Games
Use of Weapons
The State of the Art
Excession
Inversions
Look to Windward
Matter
Surface Detail
The Hydrogen Sonata
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“This could be a late 2010s current events projection onto the edge of the galaxy. Sweet. So many big, important ideas introduced here, but not explored until the appendices? Maybe that was by design. To be fully explored in subsequent volumes (which I do intend to read). Where this book dates itself is in the very Hollywood, Space War, Pew-Pew, shoot ‘em up action sequences which felt lifted straight from so many 80s action movies. So much so that I knew exactly what would happen, page by page, for the last quarter of the novel.
With that said, the Orbital and the various societies and tech born from it? Fucking cool. As was the gameplay before the destruction and the whole culture surrounding it. Brilliant. Give me more. Also more depth behind the “Hippies with Guns” angle, please.
Looking forward to volume two, with the next three all in the near future.”
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“2nd time was the charm with this one. My first attempt was foiled by boredom and wanting to read other books at the time. This time I started again but listened on Audible instead of reading on my kindle. Seemed to be the correct choice. Excellent narrator and an interesting story that kept me engaged throughout.”
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About Iain M. Banks
Iain Banks came to widespread and controversial public notice with the publication of his first novel, The Wasp Factory, in 1984. Consider Phlebas, his first science fiction novel, was published under the name Iain M. Banks in 1987 and began his celebrated ten-book Culture series. He is acclaimed as one of the most powerful, innovative and exciting writers of his generation.
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