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| Value for Money | 10/10 |
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| Overall rating | 9.5/10 |
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Guest.
on 27th Sep 2008
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Skillful interweaving of several complex story strands. Enormously vivid and fertile imagination. Had to read it twice! not exactly a bad point. One of the best "hard SF" books I have ever come across - and I have ready many hundreds of them.
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spot
on 6th Sep 2004
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Iain M. Banks, Excession - Basically, this was my first encounter with Iain Banks's Culture. As such, a lot in the book was taken for granted that made little sense at first to me. What is a mind? Why are ships talking? etc. However, I went on to read the other Culture books, so read this with an open mind. What at first appears a complaint is merely indicative of the sheer scope and scale of Banks's creation. The complexity and originality of the Culture is a rarity, perhaps even a one off in s ...
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