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Originally Posted by Bant Warick  I've just started reading my first Banks novel, excession. It's a good story but probably not the ideal one to start with when your new to his culture novels (took me a while to realise the ships where AI "alive"). So any recommendations on what I should have read first? |
Hi Bant, I'm fairly new to Banks and have only read two of the culture novels, Excession then Consider Phlebas. I kind of get the feeling that your asking which end of the ball do you grab. It seems no particular book assumes you know much about the culture, and perhaps no book takes the time out to explain much about it either. I'm just immersing myself in them when I can.