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Originally Posted by Lord Soth  I'm about half way through Matter now, and I must admit i'm not overly impressed.
Its been a long time since I have a read a culture novel, and I suppose I was expecting more 'sci-fi' and less quasi-fantasy. I'm also not too enamoured by (probably petty I know) the silly names character names the linguistic background depth of said names - even some of the prose started to annoy me 
/sighs
Ahh well - perhaps my tastes have changed since I last read Culture novels, I think I'll dig out some of the old ones from my loft and see if mt current expectations were not overly 'rose tinted' 
On a different note I just finished Gridlinked which i mostly enjoyed, not sure about the ending and the reasoning behing the second plotline though - needed fleshing out a little. However I am very happy that I can look forward to another 6+ books in the same universe. Already have The Line of Polity on my shelf (next to the Dragon Master Omnibus by Chris Bunch - that any good?).
For me I hope Matter improves in the second half! |
That's a shame. Banks does sometimes get a bit too immersed in his worlds without keeping notice of the fact he's writing sci-fi, that's true.
Inversions comes to mind.
Glad you're enjoying Asher. I think he's Banks' natural heir
In
The Skinner and
Brass Man, he's got two of the best sci-fi novels I've ever read