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It's not easy to disturb a mega-utopia as vast as the one Iain M. Banks has created in his popular Culture series, where life is devoted to fun and ultra-high-tech is de rigueur. But more than two millennia ago the appearance--and disappearance--of a star older than the universe caused quite a stir. Now the mystery is back, and the key to solving it lies in the mind of the person who witnessed the first disturbance 2,500 years ago. But she's dead, and getting her to cooperate may not be altogether easy.
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It's not easy to disturb a mega-utopia as vast as the one Iain M. Banks has created in his popular Culture series, where life is devoted to fun and ultra-high-tech is de rigueur. But more than two millennia ago the appearance--and disappearance--of a star older than the universe caused quite a stir. Now the mystery is back, and the key to solving it lies in the mind of the person who witnessed the first disturbance 2,500 years ago. But she's dead, and getting her to cooperate may not be altogether easy.
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Except for Star Wars, I'm never been much into sci-fi. I bought Excession partly on the strength of Banks' 'straight' fiction (especially The Wasp Factory), but mostly because it was the only English language book on the shelves of the Venetian bookshop in which I found it. The outward signs were not good: the edition I purchased is illustrated with one of those ghastly airbrushed spaceships favoured by the direst of pulp sci-fi publishers. But one shouldn't judge a book by its cover. Nor did I have foreknowledge of Bank's "Culture", the parallel universe he has developed for his science fiction titles, a potential handicap given this is about the fifth in the series. It turned out not to matter.
Excession had me from the start. This is proper literature which, as such, leaves Arthur C Clarke and E E "Doc" Smith for dead. The ideas in it are out of Clarke's league, too. There's something cinematic about the narrative, cutting and diving between figures and dialogues (the communications between the ships are especially fascinating) as Banks unravels, surely and deliberately, the plot. It's challenging - not a word in the 451 pages is wasted, and you can not afford to casually flick through a couple of pages. Fortunately, you never feel the need to. Readers of his straight fiction will know Banks' particular gift for story telling: it is put to even better use here. After fifty pages you know you're in the hands of a master - a fine, wicked, playful master at that.
Banks' only concession to the genre is to give his humanoid characters silly names, such as Dajeil Gelian and (& I'm not kidding) Sikleyr-Najasa Croepice Ince Stahl da Mapin. Knowing Banks' style, however, this is probably some sort of in-joke that I don't get, so the laugh's most likely on me for missing it. His spaceships, which are delightfully sentient, all get terrific names, on the other hand, such as The Problem Child and Fate Amenable to Change. Cool. Great book - ideal holiday reading; excellent for a 15 hour ferry trips from Bari to Igoumenitsa.
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A really nice story. Quick, intelligent ad clever as ever.
In this book you get a lot of insights on the Culture Minds (with big M). Meaning the super intelleigent A.I. that control almost everything.
Although mentionend in most Culture Novels, Excession is the first where they are the main characters.
A Must buy for Banks Fans and definitely a good advice for every Hard SF Fan.
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Iain M. Bank's "Excession" of the Culture series is incredibly complex and amazing for all the "gibberish" terminology that he just cranks out. I'd never even heard of Iain Banks before I spotted this book and promptly read it, because I enjoy sci-fi. I was not completely ready for all the terminologies that the AI ships utilize, but the many subplots were at times funny and irreverent or dire and thought-provoking. The thought that the diplomat Byr Genar-Hofoen could simply turn himself into a woman by thinking about it was...strange. The Culture's "culture" is ironic, because all that the AI machinery and the fun-loving utopia has done to ordinary human beings is what we're hoping for the future anyway. I mean, who wouldn't wish to live three hundred years and change sexes when wanted? Who wouldn't want AI machines doing everything for you and completely changing everything. Well, I think Banks raises a lot of ethical questions in "Excession", because for the Culture, what we consider somewhat taboo thought is commonplace. Brilliant, Iain M. Banks!
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Excessively longwinded
Iain Banks is one of my favourite authors and in general his books are smoldering pageturners. However, Excession is far from smoldering, and it sure ain't no pageturner, sorry! Lesen Sie weiter...
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Ist es moralisch Krieg zu führen?
Was rechtfertigt einen Krieg?
Das Buch behandelt, außerhalb der Handlung zwei wichtige Punkte. Lesen Sie weiter...
Das Buch behandelt, außerhalb der Handlung zwei wichtige Punkte. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 27. Mai 2008 von Peter Janik
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Veröffentlicht am 16. September 2004 von G. H. eLib
Interesting, Funny, Conspirative!
This is undoubtedly one of the best science-fiction novels I've ever read, and definitely one of the best of Banks' Culture novel series. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 28. Juni 2003 veröffentlicht
Get into it...
It is certainly a well-made book with excellent visual accuracy and wonderful-and-quite-original use of "Minds" that make it special. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 21. Juli 2000 von "puffinstuf"
Great addition to the Culture
Over the last few years, Iain Banks has become one of my favorite, if not THE favorite, science fiction writer. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 29. Mai 2000 von L. Myrick
Fast paced, complex, and funny
This was the first banks book i read, and i wouldn't recomend you follow my lead. I was totally unprepared for what followed. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 18. Mai 2000 von Luke Wood
It's a comedy.
I've read all of the science fiction (and most of the "straight" fiction) by Iain M. Banks, and I think that this is the funniest of them all. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 20. April 2000 von David Faldon
What the HELL was that! I love being perplexed.
Oh, man. You gotta read this. I'm not really sure how to describe it. I know this is supposed to be part of a series of books, but I didn't know that until after I read it, but... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 28. Januar 2000 von Brian Altmeyer (brianaltmeyer@hotmail.com)
Great
I love this (and other Banks books) for exactly the reasons others don't. They are full of detail and information. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 24. Januar 2000 von Patrick
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