Consider Phlebas: A Culture Novel (The Culture)

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Consider Phlebas: A Culture Novel (The Culture)

Consider Phlebas: A Culture Novel (The Culture)

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In fact, his actions manage to completely scupper the Idirans' chances of getting their hands on the Mind, as Horza was going to sell it to them anyway.

Through biographical knowledge of the countess, readers can make connections to Crown Prince Rudolf and the scandal that allowed Archduke Franz Ferdinand to become the presumptive heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary and through Ferdinand to World War I (and, perhaps, also Prince Ferdinand from The Tempest). Shur Fine Guns: One character dies when his projectile weapon has a barrelcrash, meaning the blast waves of the explosive shells he's firing explode a shell while it's still traveling down the barrel.

Just before the Clear Air Turbulence went back into warp and its crew sat down at the table, the ship expelled the limp corpse of Zallin. So essentially we have a complete inversion of the usual space opera tropes, in which the main character (it’s hard to consider him the hero) has sided against the more ‘enlightened’ Culture by fighting for the intolerant religious extremist Idiran Empire in their holy war against the machine-dominated Culture. Eliot later said, “I regret having sent so many enquirers off on a wild goose chase after Tarot cards and the Holy Grail.

Good night, ladies, good night, sweet ladies, good night, good night Good night, ladies, good night, sweet ladies, good night, good night The final words of this section of the poem come from Hamlet, spoken by Ophelia: “And so I thank you for your good counsel. Anti-Hero / Anti-Villain: Horza is the former in respect to the novel, but could be seen as the latter to the extent that the Culture itself is the protagonist of the series. The only aversion is that Unaha-Closp is repaired later and lives to retire peacefully (and arguably that Jandraligeli outlives all his crewmates, albeit by abandoning them for a rival crew). The second Idiran, who had been mortally wounded but not killed, sets one of the trains for a collision course to the station.Banks’s vision of a starfaring, post-scarcity civilisation run by AIs, in which people can change their DNA at will and live for 400 years, is publicly admired by tech giants such as Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk – even as they toil along with us in the capitalist present. So it’s quite unusual for an author like Banks to become so popular, but that’s a really good thing in my opinion.



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