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Iain M Banks - Excession
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(Review)
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Excession is the 5th book in Iain M Bank's Culture series (if you count State of the Art, the short story collection) - this is a story focussing on Ships, Ship Minds, and the groupings, games, and politics ...
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Created on 22 July 2010
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Iain M Banks - Surface Detail
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(Review)
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... Banks Title: Surface Detail Series: Culture Series Number: 9 Author: Iain M Banks Reviewer: Markus Reviewer URL: http://skating.thierstein.net Publisher: Orbit/ Little Brown Publisher URL: http://www.orbitbooks.net ...
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Created on 20 September 2011
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Iain M Banks - The Player of Games
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(Review)
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Here's a review of another classic – this time it’s The Player of Games by Iain M Banks, a book from the Culture series, centred around a game which defines a galactic empire, or, rather, which IS said ...
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Created on 27 November 2010
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Iain M Banks - Use of Weapons
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(Review)
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"The bomb lives only as it's falling" (Slias Engin) Use of Weapons is the 4th instalment in the loosely connected series of books in the Culture universe by Iain M Banks. This is a story, as the title indicates, ...
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Created on 26 May 2010
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Iain M Banks – Against a Dark Background
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(Review)
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For once an Iain M Banks (note the middle initial – this is the SF writer persona at work here) book which is not part of his Culture universe; Against a Dark Background is a stand-alone novel. Instead ...
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Created on 15 May 2013
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Charles Stross - Saturn’s Children
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(Review)
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Saturn's Children is a stand-alone novel by the Scottish writer Charles Stross. Charlie has, to date, 13 Novels, 2 Collections, and a substantial number of short stories and Novellas to his name. He's ...
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Created on 14 November 2011
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Iain M. Banks – The Algebraist
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(Review)
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Review: The Algebraist by Iain M Banks
The Story: The Algebraist tracks the progress of Fassin Taak, a Slow Seer (a kind of sect that studies the so called Dwellers), in his assigned quest to find some ...
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Created on 12 August 2012
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Iain M. Banks - Matter
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(Review)
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Matter is Iain M. Banks' 8th book in the – loosely connected - Culture series; a 9th book (Surface Detail) is due out in October 2010. The book follows the fortunes (for want of a better word) of the children ...
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Created on 18 August 2010
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Iain M. Banks - The State of The Art
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(Review)
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A brief review of The State of The Art by Iain M Banks, a collection of short stories plus the novella giving it the title, all written between 1987 and 1989.
There are a number of Culture stories here, ...
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Created on 17 December 2009
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Neal Asher - Prador Moon
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(Review)
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... Asher ‘splatter and gore’ moments (plenty thereof), and the odd torture scene (nothing bad, this is NOT Iain M Banks!). Time line wise this fits in a good time before The Skinner, showing how the Prador ...
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Created on 07 February 2011
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Iain M. Banks – Consider Phlebas
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(Review)
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... the Cultures code and sense of human dignity, liberty and individual rights, it neutralizes, subverts, educates and transforms them.
I don’t think I need to introduce the author, Iain M Banks – the only ...
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Created on 15 March 2013
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