Oh, go on then, I'll join the club....<br><br>I thought FE was pretty damn peculiar when I first started reading it, particularly the stuff about the huge ...
Ostensibly a straight fiction book rather than SF (hence being published without the "M"). Came out in the UK about 18 months ago I think. It does have a sort ...
>Ostensibly a straight fiction book rather than SF <br><br>OK<br><br>>very much like the chaos in Yugoslavia over the <br>>last decade - except that...
Um, nope! Probably requires the club to be shut down and resurrected in SF genre (doh!).<br><br>Once I've finished LTWW I'm going to re-read CP & see if I can...
>Um, nope! Probably requires the club to be shut <br>>down and resurrected in SF genre (doh!).<br><br>but thats how i started it, it got assigned somehow...
Last one was inversion I think. First I read was player of games as it was on the shelf and seemed interesting. I havent attempted to read them in any order,...
the copy of the message i got in my e-mail was different to the copy that was posted to the club...<br><br>Ao address your points, I was going by the category ...
I've tried to read all the Culture books "in order". Consider Philebas gives a good background to the Culture without going into major detail. Really liked ...
I just got a message to my yahoo mail inviting me to join. I guess it may have something to do with my profile.<br>As far as Banks is concerned I have read...
Hi Steve<br><br>Yeah, well, having done a quick search I realised that there were a fair few people out there that expressed a liking for his Banksness on ...
A lonely homesick american, whilst living in Taiwan (which by the way is great), and desperate for a connection to my formative (ie-SF) upbringing stumbled...
> A lonely homesick american, whilst living in Taiwan<br>> (which by the way is great), and desperate for a<br>> connection to my formative (ie-SF) ...
Hey Tim,<br><br>Its been awhile since I read SotA but I don't remember it being difficult. It was my first exposure to the Culture. And my first SF read in a...
State of the Art was one of the more recent IMB books I read and I enjoyed it immensely. I guess the highlight was the story regarding the Culture's first ...
There is a passage I believe about 3/4 of the way through the book that starts out with 'consider phlebas...' <br><br>I believe this is the only use of the ...
>>There is a passage I believe about 3/4 of the way through the book that starts out with 'consider phlebas...' I believe this is the only use of the ...
wow, busy place you've got here. where is everybody?<br>so what is the significance of the title of CP? With Bank's latest I think I understand the look to...
I've just got my copy of Consider Phlebas down and the introductory quote is by T.S. Eliot in "The Waste Land":<br><br>"Gentile or Jew<br>O you who turn the...
well we now know where the title of look to windward came from, there seems to be a link to Consider Philebas (title to title at least), are the books linked...
Yes, but tangentally. There are lots of references to the Idiran war. There is a sense, in CP, that the Culture is the new kid on the block, while in LTWW...
Aieee, don't say things like that. Besides, the big C had been around for seven or eight thousand years at the time of the Idiran war, hadn't it? Hardly a new...
Do you think IMB is trying to write a 'future history' of the culture, or is it just a (large) plot device on which to hang his stories...?<br><br>Tim...
>> the big C had been around for seven or eight thousand years at the time of the Idiran war, hadn't it? <br><br>Yes, but they were considered ...
You'd need internal conflict first and rogue Culture elements to side with another, expanding, Involved force. If they had met the Idirans under these ...
hmm, it seems if things got really sticky individual ships could just take off on their own. Andromeda or bust!<br>we don't really know enough of the internal...
>hmm, it seems if things got really sticky >individual ships could just take off<br>> on their own.<br><br>Reaching back into the depths of my memory,...
I just found your club today--I'm always happy to find Banks fans! I "came to Banks" via a copy of Espedair Street my mom gave me one Christmas. That quickly ...
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