Iain M. Banks
Paperback | Pages: 471 pages Rating: 3.86 | 70778 Users | 3716 Reviews
Identify Containing Books Consider Phlebas (Culture #1)
| Title | : | Consider Phlebas (Culture #1) |
| Author | : | Iain M. Banks |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 471 pages |
| Published | : | April 14th 1988 by Orbit (first published April 23rd 1987) |
| Categories | : | Science Fiction. Fiction. Space. Space Opera. Science Fiction Fantasy. Fantasy. Cultural |
Explanation As Books Consider Phlebas (Culture #1)
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.
Present Books Supposing Consider Phlebas (Culture #1)
| Original Title: | Consider Phlebas |
| ISBN: | 1857231384 (ISBN13: 9781857231380) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Culture #1 |
| Characters: | Horza |
Rating Containing Books Consider Phlebas (Culture #1)
Ratings: 3.86 From 70778 Users | 3716 ReviewsColumn Containing Books Consider Phlebas (Culture #1)
Its not you, its me.Ive got to watch out for space operas. I will either buy in early or I just wont. And then Im staring at 400 pages of ehh.Its too bad, I really liked the idea and Banks writing seemed inspired. There was a cool interstellar culture called The Culture. The post-scarcity confederacy of different races reminded me of Star Trek and there was also some Dune references.But it just didnt take. DNF at 30%, life's too short.Sorry Iain, I might try again some other time.This novel was good. The author did an excellent job of building a world and creatively fueling it with philosophy and technology. I like large scale space opera ideas when they involve religion, philosophy and the eventual evolution of materialistic ideas both philosophically and realistically. The developed stages of thought of group that were representative of modern day groups was interesting to me. Most importantly, it was character driven. The main character, Horza, is a Changer and is
The opening scene to Iain M. Banks' opening novel in the Culture universe is one of my favourites in sci-fi. How would an ultra-sophisticated artificial intelligence escape certain death at the hands of an enemy? What moves would it make? What sacrifices?The very next scene, in which we meet our protagonist Horza, is a huge win. Remember when we met Aragorn in Lord of the Rings? There was practically a drum roll. Yeah, well there's none of that here. Horza is being slowly put to death by
Youre ruled by your machines. Youre an evolutionary dead end. The trouble is that to take your mind off it you try to drag everybody else down there with you.Back to the beginning. Consider Phlebas is the first book of the Culture series (ten volumes in total, I believe), one of the most beloved sci-fi book series ever, written by the late great Iain M. Banks, feel free to confuse him with the equally late and great Iain Banks, who is indeed the same writer but is described as a literary
HmmmmA good-but-not-great SF adventure in a war between two opposing ideologies.But it's one of those works that never really develops the ideas in an SF sort of way. I feel like the author had a good Alistair MacLean novel in his head, and a can of Super Sci-Fi Paint in the garage, and slapped the paint on the novel and called it science fiction.But in a well-intentioned way. Like the Star Wars prequels. :DMonopoly for A.I. Although the "Mind" artificial intelligence, which was the subject of
There are some motives and ideas that pop up in all of Banks' works. In this, his first culture novel, I want to mention some of them. His background in philosophy and psychology enabled him to combine Sci-Fi with really deep criticism regarding the human past, presence and future. No matter if it was the dark medieval time, the presence or any period of the future, he managed to show the flaws, errors and grievances. He even anticipated problems in detail that might once occur. The belief in a
HmmmmA good-but-not-great SF adventure in a war between two opposing ideologies.But it's one of those works that never really develops the ideas in an SF sort of way. I feel like the author had a good Alistair MacLean novel in his head, and a can of Super Sci-Fi Paint in the garage, and slapped the paint on the novel and called it science fiction.But in a well-intentioned way. Like the Star Wars prequels. :DMonopoly for A.I. Although the "Mind" artificial intelligence, which was the subject of
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