Matter

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• Culture clashes

  Matter by Iain M Banks 593pp, Orbit, £18.99 The Culture is an anarcho-communist, galaxy-spanning civilisation of post-humans and machines that has been the playground of some of Iain Banks's best novels, published with or without his middle initial. ... (read full critics)

  guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

• Matter

  Iain M Banks's latest venture into widescreen, baroque science fiction takes the reader into a war-torn feudal society. Soon the king is murdered by his oldest friend and advisor, the deed witnessed by the presumed-dead prince Ferbin. The prince's yo ... (read full critics)

  guardian.co.uk published on Fri, 24 Sep 2010

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  Not as good as "the player of games" or "use of weapons" but still an enjoyable read.

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  More Culture goodness

  I took my time reading this as I am a huge fan Banks' Culture novels. Matter doesn't disappoint. Suit up, pick up your CREW and go fight some comped Morth-tech guard ships in a 4 dimensional Shellworld's Machine Core.

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  Martin Laine said on Apr 16, 2008 | Add your feedback

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• English Books
• Hardcover 448 Pages
• Edition: 1
• ISBN-10: 0316005363
• ISBN-13: 9780316005364
• Publisher: Orbit
• Pub date: Feb 27, 2008
• Also available as: Paperback, Audio CD and eBook

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