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Obdicut (Now with 2% less brain)4/09/2012 4:50:15 am PDT

re: #51 Decatur Deb

Ian M. Banks is both grandiose and subtle as a motherfucker. He normally concerns himself with a few interesting characters against a backdrop of holy-crap insane galactic blammo. I’d give him a shot— his writing skills alone are awesome. Start out with Consider Phlebas, it’ll give you a good idea of what sort of novelist Banks is: the hero of that novel is the enemy of the civilization that is the ‘hero’ of the series.

And Bank’s starships have AIs running them, and so of course they name themselves things like It’s Character Forming and Death and Gravity.