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Consider Phlebas, first published in 1987, is a space opera novel by Scottish writer Iain M. Banks. It is the first in a series of novels about an interstellar post-scarcity society called the Culture .
Apr 23, 1987 · 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 novelist” and wrote mainstream non-sci-fi books. It is not surprising then that ...
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Feb 11, 2011 · Subject: Phlebas Considered. CONSIDER PHLEBAS by Iain M. Banks. New Scientist had an article listing ten (or was it eleven) science fiction books that were really different. The first one I read was Light by M. John Harrison, praised by Neil Gaiman. It contained many very impressive scenes – the whatever-it-may-have-been escaping from the ...
May 10, 2024 · Word Tweak. May 10, 2024. This book review was first published via Weekend Notes. 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.
Consider Phlebas teems with vivid characters and desperate adventures, and can be viewed as "space opera" at its best. But it is also, at its heart, a provocative and thoughtful examination of good and evil and the nature of truth itself.
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Consider Phlebas is a space opera of stunning power and awesome imagination, from a modern master of science fiction. 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 ...
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May 3, 2011 · 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. The war raged across the galaxy. Billions had died, billions more were doomed. Moons, planets, the very stars themselves, faced destruction, cold-blooded ...
