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The time is 4034 A.D. and humanity has made it to the stars, but Fassin Taak will be fortunate if he makes it to the end of the year as he searches for a secret that has remained hidden for half a billion years.
dkelly304: Gas Giant Creatures, Ancient Air-Based Intelligences, that don't bother anyone and have existed for billions of years. Sounds like the the behemothaur Yoleus in Look to Windward. Might also enjoy the Saga of the Seven Suns (the Hydrogues, Gas giant bad-guys).
I love the Culture Novels SO much so I may be twisted to recommend more Banks, when reading... Banks. But honestly if you really do like the range and depth of the story telling, and this story, is meta-told by a character from the story... if you like that a bit more it gives Banks greater freedom from Character Perspective when he narrates and allows him to bring a universe much like the Culture's back to life in 1 book, weaving all the nuances of almost a dozen Culture Novels into a new pattern and then deftly anchoring the story line into yet another complicated weave of flashbacks, character flaws and subtle, underplayed pivoting climaxes in the plot that make the reader double guess what was just read, and attempt to re-read back.
I say re-read back, and get the e-book version to accompany your Audio Rendition - I have the "Recorded Books Collection" version on audio and I find that the Non-Audible Style is a fresh take (even if it's a retro throw back to the 90's style recording), gives some of the more "british" aspects of Banks's style a more familiar and easily absorbed format for the American Reader/Listener.
As always Bank's need for a character (or an aspect of all of them) to be at some level, a nuisance, a spy, a bad lover with emotional baggage, once the opposite sex, several thousand years of age, in league with the enemy, using massively advanced technique technology and doing it with real gravitas when the time comes to deliver the written bomb that is the true climax to the plot in any great Banks novel. don't leave out long lists of possibles and extra things that come at the end of paragraphs - the long iterations of different like things that comically represents some aspect of the far flung society we are being told about. It is done as much to amuse us, as to bring in some of the well-known, the familiar idiocy of our current society out into the beyond in time so that when we hear of it again in story, our minds and hearts can believe it could really be so, just that much more.
For those who didn't enjoy this book as much as the culture novels, try it in Audio, or a Written Format other than e-Book - format makes a difference, I could not follow this book when it was in print, Audio Format is the only thing I was able to absorb (then I list it in my top 10 non-series Sci-Fi Novel List_#6 when I write this).
-Super Future Enthusiast and Sci-fi nerd novel reader extraordinaire… (altro)
Iain Banks è uno che quando scrive di fantascienza non lesina certo. I suoi libri portano il concetto di space opera all'estremo, su scala letteralmente galattica. Anche in questo caso non ci si fa mancare nulla, dai wormhole alle flotte astrali, dalle razze aliene alle intelligenze artificiali, dalle cospirazioni ai tradimenti. Come se non bastasse, Banks scrive in modo prolisso e convoluto, con una pletora di aggettivi, una costruzione delle frasi che non mi capitava di trovare dai tempi in cui al liceo mi venivano propinate in traduzione, e passaggi con doppi dialoghi tra gli stessi personaggi da separare per riuscire a seguire il filo del discorso. Di algebra, nonostante il titolo, non ce n'è affatto, anche se è vero che il protagonista è alla caccia di una trasformazione algebrica che sarebbe la chiave per scoprire una rete segreta di wormhole planetari. Se si supera pagina 300 non viene voglia di smettere, ma bisogna arrivarci... ( )
The time is 4034 A.D. and humanity has made it to the stars, but Fassin Taak will be fortunate if he makes it to the end of the year as he searches for a secret that has remained hidden for half a billion years.