Against A Dark Background: Iain M. Banks

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True Companions: Sharrow gets the band back together to track down the Lazy Gun and get the Huhsz off her family's back once and for all. Feril hesitated, while she looked down at the car-park surface, and then it added, 'I noticed that you no longer limp. That stated, this is a hard novel to really get into and in fact, I can see why some may dnf it as I was tempted to do about 100 pages in. The important elements in the beginning seem meaningless in the end, and the important elements in the ending seem meaningless before the ending. One (spoiler free) way to read the main character's actions, especially at the end: Our perceived isolation ought to bring us closer together--or better yet, encourage us to see that we were a lot closer together than we thought all along.

As a whole though, this isn’t Banks at his full-power, megaton-range-imagination best, as seen in his Culture novels. her long golden hair undone and straggling to the waist of her slinky dress, her shoes off and held over one shoulder . Actually, read everything, although "non-M" part of his opus have more slightly weaker (for Banks) titles than the "M" part.No one in the novel understands how such tech works, so you won't either, but some of it is still pretty neat. Set in a planetary system a million lightyears from the closest planet where humans have had spaceflight for thousands of years, the novel explores some themes of loneliness and isolation (eventually.

The central premise - a religious cult needs Sharrow dead - seemed instantly far-fetched, and things didn't improve from there. I've been a science fiction fan as long as I can remember, and I later realized that I was also interested in philosophy all along! Except for his almost-obligatory Banks Tragic Ending, wherein Zefla -- and other characters I'd grown fond of (and some I hadn't) -- come to grief. The central character of Against a Dark Background is Sharrow, a noble in a distant future star system.He related his concerns about the invasion of Iraq in his book Raw Spirit, and the principal protagonist (Alban McGill) in the novel The Steep Approach to Garbadale confronts another character with arguments in a similar vein. A God Am I: Sharrow is captured by a team of solipsist mercenaries, each of whom believe that they are God and everyone else, including the rest of their team, are figments of their imagination. The Culture: The Drawings- an extraordinary collection of original illustrations faithfully reproduced from sketchbooks Banks kept in the 1970s and 80s, depicting the ships, habitats, geography, weapons and language of Banks' Culture series of novels in incredible detail.