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John Lee · 29th July 2007, 03:05 AM

Being new to Banks and devouring most of his culture and other SF novels pretty quickly. I must say that “the Algebrist” is my favorite. For the simple reason that I founds humans (as protagonists) that you could care about. In the culture novels (and it did take a while for this to dawn on me) people are not that important and frankly someone extraneous.

The AI's are much more interesting and seem to have a purpose as opposed to the Humans. I am not sure why the AI's even have the humans around. They serve no purpose.

Banks is as stunning talent of a writer. In fact he has reignited my love for SF. I just like some of his other SF novels versus the culture series, this is due to more more fully fleshed out human characters.

29th July 2007, 03:05 AM	#19 (permalink)
John Lee Registered User Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Illinois Posts: 1	Re: Culture Fans? (Iain M Banks) Being new to Banks and devouring most of his culture and other SF novels pretty quickly. I must say that “the Algebrist” is my favorite. For the simple reason that I founds humans (as protagonists) that you could care about. In the culture novels (and it did take a while for this to dawn on me) people are not that important and frankly someone extraneous. The AI's are much more interesting and seem to have a purpose as opposed to the Humans. I am not sure why the AI's even have the humans around. They serve no purpose. Banks is as stunning talent of a writer. In fact he has reignited my love for SF. I just like some of his other SF novels versus the culture series, this is due to more more fully fleshed out human characters.