Advantages: A non-Culture book from one of the very best of Sci Fi authors Disadvantages: None really... unless you don't like science fiction!
...introduced to Iain M Banks by a colleague of mine who leant me her copy of The Player Of Games. I loved that and after that I read Consider Phlebas.. that was great too, but I adore Against A Dark Background!
I had been getting used to the concep ...
Advantages: Very well-written Disadvantages: A bit of deja vu
“Against A Dark Background” was the first of Iain Banks’ sf books not to be set in the Culture, and I found this an odd decision because there was little in the story that wouldn’t have fitted into the series. In fact the book is very similar to the prev ...
Advantages: Unqiue and a real Classi Banks novel Disadvantages: None for me
Meet the heroine, Sharrow. A feisty woman with an unusual background and a religious death threat hanging over her head. Banks, in my opinion, has really done himself proud in this departure from the culture series. Set in a competely different backgound ...
Advantages: Fantasticly creative and convincing Disadvantages: Spoils you rotten
This is a mad book, Ulysees for the MTV generation. It is definitely his best, most inventive and most rewarding sci-fi. I love the culture books and it's wonderful the way they whisk you away to such a shiny, shiny world, but it's in Feersum and also in ...
Iain M Banks is an science fiction author who also pens non science fiction under the name Iain Banks.
This book is not one of Banks' Culture novels, but is set in the far future on a world not like Earth.
It concerns the story of an Female ex-army ...
