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A cloud of space dust is advancing on Earth threatening to destroy all life The task of saving the planet falls to the Chapel Engineers an organization of scientific consciences many of whose bodies are dead plugged into a computer network Count Alandre Sessine VII has already died seven times but the wonders of the vast net of technological memory have kept his soul alive Now he has only one life left one chance to catch his killer
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Posted at HeradascomEven though his work was split about fifty fifty between literary fiction and science fiction Iain Banks considered himself first and foremost a science fiction writer He cut his teeth on space opera writing several novels in the seventies that went unpublished for decades By 1984 he had s
Scottish writer Iain M Banks with his book Feersum Endjinn has given us the second science fiction novel not based upon or set within the Culture universe the first being Against a Dark BackgroundFeersum Endjinn is additionally Iain M Banks's sixth work of science fictionBanks deals in ideas The most striking fea
This is a serious work of the imagination It doesn't really fit in the Culture novels but it's definitely some Hard SF with a beautiful vision of a far old Earth filled with so many Big Ideas We've got everything from allotted resurrections ghosts solving their own murders enormous and layered virtual realities virus
By looking at my star rating you might think I am not a fan of Iain M Banks non Culture novel Feersum Endjin That is not the truth though I am a fan A big fan actually but I try to stick to what the stars claim they are for and since they range from didn't like it to it was amazing and are clearly subjective ranks rather
Iain M Banks is the only sf author I've actively pursued in years His Culture novels have been particularly interesting their sociological framework being unusually intelligent for the genreThis is not a Culture novel per se though god knows it may fit in somewhere as pre C in the broad canvas of Banks' imagination What it i
It grabbed me from the start Part of this was the simple spectacle of it all of the brobdingnagian castle where most of the story is set in its kilometers long kilometers tall chambers of a destructive civil war between royalists and those aligned with the clan of Engineers of the grotesue chimeric animals of sentience and of th
First of all I'm a big Iain Banks fan Keep that in mind when I tell you that this book is unreadableThe number one problem is that one of the main characters has some sort of disability and can only write phonetically So you have to wade through pages and pages of garbage like thisBut am Bascule thi Rascule thass whot they call me A
Set on an almost unrecognizable far future Earth this book is Iain M Banks' second non Culture SF endevour Earth is past it's golden hour and technology has fallen into the realm of mysticism and ritual The story follows four different people living in the remains of what can only be described as an disproportionately scaled super city
I don't know what to think This one will have to sit and be turned over in the mental thought bank for a while the difficulties of following the narrative through POV changes and the phonetically written sections made it fragment in my mind despite me reading it at my usual tremendous pace I think I liked it a lot I certainly liked the conc