Consider Phlebas

, #1

471 pages

Langue : English

Publié 13 novembre 2005

ISBN :
978-1-85723-138-0
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Goodreads:
8935689

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4 étoiles (3 critiques)

The war raged across the galaxy. Billions had died, billions more were doomed. Moons, planets, the very stars themselves, faced destruction, cold-blooded, brutal, and worse, random. The Idirans fought for their Faith; the Culture for its moral right to exist. Principles were at stake. There could be no surrender.

Within the cosmic conflict, an individual crusade. Deep within a fabled labyrinth on a barren world, a Planet of the Dead proscribed to mortals, lay a fugitive Mind. Both the Culture and the Idirans sought it. It was the fate of Horza, the Changer, and his motley crew of unpredictable mercenaries, human and machine, actually to find it, and with it their own destruction.

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a publié une critique de Consider Phlebas par Iain M. Banks (Culture, #1)

Elements of a Great SciFi but Not Executed

3 étoiles

No real world building even though the world we get a glimpse of is fascinating. We are left wanting and not in a good way. A lot of it was, well, meaningless. We want this book to be more. We actually need it to be more. That it doesn't even com close is what is so depressing. That said, we are eager to read the next recommended book in the series to hopefully see if he does give us more, in a good way.

A ton of imaginative concepts but it doesn't quite work

3 étoiles

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