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
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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.
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.
Surprisingly good!
Been on a sci fi kick.
But many books are so full of pretentious lumbering prose and slow time murdering pages.
Was not expecting this book to be so direct, clear, yet evocative, action packed and fun. Can’t believe my luck that this isn’t even his best book and I have so many more to go. Very very puzzled about the bad reviews I’ve seen but ok…to each their own.
Cheers Mr Banks. Freaking love your stuff.