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APPRECIATION – Iain M. Banks
With just having finished The Hydrogen Sonata, I now realise that I’ve read all of Iain M. Banks’ novels (as opposed to his other incarnation’s works, of which I’ve read only three). It’s something of a saddening experience to think … Continue reading →
Posted in 2014 New Reads, Discussion, Fiction, Lists, Re-read, Read on my Kindle, Reviews, Science fiction
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Tagged Against A Dark Background, AI, awesome protagonists, baroque imagination, Cheradenine Zakalwe, colonialism, credible aliens, Diziet Sma, end of civilisation, Iain M Banks, Inversions, space opera, Surface Detail, the culture, The Hydrogen Sonata, Use of Weapons, utopian society
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The State of the Art – Iain M. Banks
(Orbit 1991) This is a collection of short stories and one novella published between 1987 to 1989 in various publications. I’ve read all of Banks’ sci-fi novels (up to Matter) and it’s taken me a while to get round to … Continue reading →
Posted in 2010 New Reads, Fiction, Reviews, Science fiction
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Tagged aliens, Culture, debates, Earth seen by aliens, Iain M Banks, novella, short stories
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