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- Since its publication in 1987, “Consider Phlebas” has garnered widespread critical acclaim. It has been praised for its originality, complex characters, and thought-provoking themes. The novel’s impact on the science fiction genre is immeasurable, as it helped pave the way for a new wave of space opera and socially conscious science fiction.
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Consider Phlebas is Banks's first published science fiction novel, and takes its title from a line in T. S. Eliot's poem The Waste Land. A subsequent Culture novel, Look to Windward (2000), whose title comes from the previous line of the same poem, can be considered a loose follow-up.
Apr 23, 1987 · Consider Phlebas is the story of protagonist Bora Horza Gobuchul, a Changer, a transhuman with an ability to gradually morph into other humans. “Horza” hates the Culture with a passion and has sided with the Idirans, an alien race at war with the Culture, a war of ideology.
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Dec 19, 2023 · Iain M. Banks’ “Consider Phlebas” is a science fiction masterpiece that transcends the boundaries of the genre. With its intricate plot, memorable characters, and thought-provoking themes, it has left an indelible mark on the world of literature.
Nov 11, 2023 · At the heart of “Consider Phlebas” lies the Idiran-Culture War, a conflict of galactic proportions that pits the technologically advanced, semi-anarchist Culture against the spiritually zealous Idiran Empire.
Jun 18, 2018 · When it was published in 1987, Consider Phlebas is arguably the spark that initiated the New Space Opera fire, effectively reinventing a long stagnant genre and taking it in a more literary minded, left leaning, progressive direction.
May 10, 2024 · While the debut space opera novel in the Culture series, Consider Phlebas, is ambitious in scope, it successfully guides the reader through a daring, galaxy-spanning mission amid interplanetary conflict without losing the reader to genre tropes.
A stunning new reissue edition of Consider Phlebas - a space opera of stunning power and awesome imagination from Iain M. Banks, one of the most important and influential writers in modern science fiction. The war raged across the galaxy. Billions had died, billions more were doomed.
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