It feels more like fantasy than science fiction. Over a week ago, I decided to start Inversions. That set the order for the remaining books: read Inversions first, then The Algebraist and end with Transition, spread out over a year or two, three. A friend told me he liked The Algebraist – a non-Culture doorstopper with sentient gass giants – a lot, and found Transition to be one of the wildest books he ever read. After more than a decade of near abstinence of fiction, it was the Culture series that turned me into an avid fiction reader again. S urface Detail was the last Culture novel on my TBR, so I read that first. I decided to savour those, since there would never be the joy of waiting for a new Iain M. Surface Detail, Inversions, The Algebraist and Transition. When cancer tragically stole Iain Banks from our world in June 2013, I still had 4 of his books on my TBR-pile.
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