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  • Guest 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.

  • spot Rank: Sergeant 6th Sep 2004

    Reviewer rating: 4.5 stars


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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 ...