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. Banks Culture series is a potboiler of intergalactic intrigue. Both the Culture and the Idirans sought it. Deep within a fabled labyrinth on a barren world, a Planet of the Dead proscribed to mortals, lay a fugitive Mind. Within the cosmic conflict, an individual crusade. Banks’ first Culture novel, Consider Phlebas, is an incredibly complex book, in which the author. Eliot, The Waste Land (IV) review Like T. The Idirans fought for their Faith the Culture for its moral right to exist. O you who turn the wheel and look to windward, Consider Phlebas, who was once handsome and tall as you. He is now widely acclaimed as one of the most powerful, innovative and exciting writers of his generation. Consider Phlebas, his first science fiction novel, was published under the name Iain M. Moons, planets, the very stars themselves, faced destruction, cold-blooded, brutal, and worse, random. Iain Banks came to controversial public notice with the publication of his first novel, The Wasp Factory, in 1984. Billions had died, billions more were doomed. 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. Banks's seminal science fiction series, The Culture. Banks New Scientist had an article listing ten (or was it eleven) science fiction books that were really different.
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