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
مراجعات العملاء
The last page always makes me cry
Reread it three times. Always tear up at the end. The best Culture novel to read, and the first.
Lots of action but to what purpose
If you like reading about incessant action, chases, fire fights in mind numbing detail, then this is for you. For my taste the Author overly dwells on repetitive, descriptive action just for its own sake and I kept hoping for more of an amazing reveal of mind-blowing futuristic concepts that never came, other than the Ring World.
Not for me
Not only do I hate ridiculous names that are totally unnecessary and mess with your head, the writing itself was awful. Maybe it improves but I gave up after the first chapter as it was painfully obvious this book was not for me. My advice don’t waste your time and money.