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The Culture Series by Iain Banks, quite a good scifi series in my opinion.
by __john 7y ago
The Culture Series by Iain Banks, quite a good scifi series in my opinion.
- KSteffensen 7y agoPlayer of Games is amazing.
- The_Colonel 7y agoSerious question, what is so amazing about it? Based on recommendations (I'm a scifi fan) I bought it and read it. It was an OK read, not boring or anything, but also hardly extraordinary. For me easily forgettable. I don't have the feeling I missed some important part since it wasn't really very complex. So I'm curious why people think it's so good.
- KSteffensen 7y agoNot sure, I'm not really a literary critic. I guess Banks does a good job of setting up the bad guys to be real arseholes, then knocks them down. The pacing had me reading this book in just two days, which is unusual for me. This sprinkled with cool ideas like the giant brush fire, the whole empire being based on a game, the ship names. I also like board games which probably doesn't hurt the book. I like most of the Culture books. My other favorite is Use of Weapons which is very different from Player of Games, much slower.
- AlexCoventry 7y agoIt's a great allegory for classist society, and the arbitrary and self-serving nature of the processes by which class hierarchies maintain themselves.
- __john 7y agoI don't care for any book in particular (except maybe Excession). I more just enjoy the Culture universe.
- is0tope 7y agoOne of my favourite series of books. In many ways quite dark, but with a thread of ironic optimism rarely found in other sci fi books.