Imaginaire: Une Forme de Guerre (Cycle de la Culture, Tome 3) (Book)

from elenchus

THE CULTURE: BOOK 1 | Consider Phlebas The first published Culture novel, the sixth I've read. Here begins my read through the complete Culture cycle in publication order, at whatever pace feels comfortable. A special focus: evidence the Culture is for Banks neither utopia nor dystopia, but a des...

from maura853

Stands up well on rereading, 30 years after the late Blessed Iain M. first delighted up with his canny, rich and witty snapshots of life in the Culture, his post-scarcity, post-irony and post-Singularity society. The humanoids are just as angst-ridden, the planets just as bizarre and the AIs just...

from santhony

Consider Phlebas is the first book in the Culture series, but should not necessarily be read first. The books can actually be read in any order. There is no sequential activity from one book to the other, and Consider Phlebas was actually the last book on the series that I read. Since many will r...

from ChrisRiesbeck

Disappointing, not because it's awful, but because my expectations were high, given how often Banks is listed in discussions of authors to read, and given I dimly recall enjoying a different entry in the Culture series. This is classic modern British space opera, with all the strengths and weakne...

from pwaites

Consider Phlebas was just not the right book for me. While I thought it was well written and appreciated some of the ideas, the end result left me cold. Consider Phlebas is a long space opera set against the background of an epic war between two civilizations, one based around artificial intellig...