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4 Mar 18th, 2005 

6 Ciao members have rated this review on average: helpful

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Excellent plot and interesting twists .  .  .

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Rather complex and not for everyone .  .  .

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This book is a part of Iain Bank's series of "Culture" novels, it's a look at a future society run by Minds, super intelligent AI's that run all the stations and ships that make up a vast interstellar group.

The novel starts with the apperance of a strange anomaly in a remote reigion of space and then follows the actions of both the Minds and the citizens of various races as they react to this stimuli.

The book is complicated and involving to read, requiring some mental agility to understand in places. Some may find this a welcome challenge that adds to the joy of reading the book, but others are warned that this might not be to their tastes.

In common with most of the Culture novels, the plot is wonderful in its exacting detail and the characters are always fresh and intruiging in their interations. For those with the mental agility to handle to complicated weaving of storylines this is a novel not to be missed... 

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kitty17 19.03.2005 15:34

Books this complex take a lot of reviewing, don't know whether you've done it justice here, a great novel. Ellie.

MAFARRIMOND 19.03.2005 12:29

Sounds like something I would enjoy. Maureen

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