Inversions (Culture, #6)

Posted on 07 August 2017 by Iain M. Banks

On a backwards world with six moons, an alert spy reports on the doings of one Dr Vosill, who has mysteriously become the personal physician to the king, despite being a foreigner and, even unthinkably, a woman Vosill has enemies than she first realizes But then she also has remedies to hand than those who wish her ill can ever guess.Elsewhere, in another palace across the mountains, a man named DeWar serves as chief bodyguard to the Protector General of Tassasen, a profession he describes as the business of assassinating assassins DeWar, too, has his enemies, but his foes strike swiftly, and his means of combating them are direct.None trust the doctor, while the bodyguard trusts no one, but what is the hidden commonality linking their disparate histories Spiraling around a central core of mystery, deceit, love, and betrayal, Inversions is a dazzling work of science fiction from a versatile and imaginative author writing at the height of his remarkable powers. About the Author Iain M Banks, one of the United Kingdom s bestselling authors of science fiction, has written such highly regarded novels as Excession, Feersum Endjinn, Use of Weapons, The State of the Art, and Against a Dark Background As Iain Banks, he also writes mainstream novels, including The Wasp Factory and A Song of Stone He lives in Scotland. New Download Inversions (Culture, #6) [ by ] Iain M. Banks [ Kindle ePUB or eBook ] – kino-fada.fr I must preface my review with my surprise I just took a look at the responses to this book from my goodreads friends and the star ratings are only fair to middling It makes me wonder if my love for this book is, perhaps, a little misguided Either that or I am adiscerning reader than everyone else Yeah that s probably it So here s my review Iain M Banks books are packed with big, way out there moments Grandmas explode, people wake up in rooms full of shit, ships run intentiona I must preface my review with my surprise I just took a look at the responses to this book from my goodreads friends and the star ratings are only fair to middling It makes me wonder if my love for this book is, perhaps, a little misguided Either that or I am adiscerning reader than everyone else Yeah that s probably it So here s my review Iain M Banks books are packed with big, way out there moments Grandmas explode, people wake up in rooms full of shit, ships run intentionally aground, hermaphrodites apply to mechanized killing temples to help them make decisions His work is big and brash and in your face, and extended subtlety is not something Banks often employs But he can.Inversions his non Culture Culture novel is all subtlety It is a delicate double tale unlike any other he s told Two journals, two narratives run parallel in an unnamed world experiencing a sort of Renaissance A doctor cares for her King A bodyguard protects his cou...After finishing this, Inversions is now tied with The Player of Games as my favorite in the Culture series.It s definitely the most subtle of the Culture novels so far so subtle in fact, that I fear a lot of readers aren t grasping the scope of what it is about I would suggest only reading this one after having read a few other culture novels prior and in close succession it is very, very subtle but absolutely brilliant.Told from the perspective of two very different characters, one a persona After finishing this, Inversions is now tied with The Player of Games as my favorite in the Culture series.It s definitely the most subtle of the Culture novels so far so subtle in fact, that I fear a lot of readers aren t grasping the scope of what it is about I would suggest only reading this one after having read a few other culture novels prior and in close succession it is very, very subtle but absolutely brilliant.Told from the perspective of two very different characters,...Rather than focus on a grand scale space opera, I think Banks wanted to dump us into a backwater gravity well and let us have a sense of what it would be like to tour as a doctor, perhaps Culture trained, among the crude creatures of a Medieval period.Mind you, I didn t quite pick up any definitive proof of actual Culture interference, mind you, because our PoV is actually from the apprentice to the good doctor who ...Spoilers Banks Culture series so far has been, what I will refer to as, hard sci fi Gargantuan megaships which house billions of people, immensely advanced Artificial Intelligences independently managing entire worlds, tiny drones with the ability to kill several people in a matter of seconds, Orbitals 3million kilometres in diameter, ships capable of travelling at hundreds of thousands of times the speed of light, tiny weapons with enormous destructive capabilities which can shrink down to Spoilers Banks Culture series so far has been, what I will refer to as, hard sci fi Gargantuan megaships which house billions of people, immensely advanced Artificial Intelligences independently managing entire worlds, tiny drones with the ability to kill several people in a matter of seconds, Orbitals 3million kilometres in diameter, ships capable of travelling at hundreds of thousands of times the speed of light, tiny weapons with enormous destructive capabilities which can shrink down to a false tooth or brooch when not in use, galactic warfare, assassins, and an array of bizarre and wonderful alien species His imagination in the series is seemingly limitless, almost boasting of what science fiction is capable of, in all its pomp and excess Inversions is the exact opposite As Ban...Resulta ir nico que el libro con el que m s he disfrutado de los le dos por ahora de La Cultura, no contenga elementos de ciencia ficci n, salvo en cierta parte del libro del que no se puede hablar para no descubrir el misterio a futuros lectores Ha sido refrescante encontrarse con el mejor Banks tras la peque a decepci n que supuso Excesi n , el anterior libro de La Cultura Inversiones es una novela m s literaria, alejada de ...I have to say, first off, that every single review I saw of this book online even ones as short as a single line gives away something you are not supposed to know until the very end, if you figure it out at all These details that they spoil are not exactly essential to the plot, but one was spoiled for me and I think the novel lost some of its tautness as a result and the one that was not spoiled I was very glad wasn t spoiled becau...I loved this so much It s my last virgin read of A Culture book except for the short story collection, and I m glad it was the last because I found it be the best kind of fairy tale It actually has no direct mention of the Culture and takes place on your typical medieval fantasy world where women are secondary citizens There are 2 separate stories taking place in different parts of the world, each one told in alternating chapters, but the narrator of one section tells us on the prologue they I loved this so much It s my last virgin read of A Culture book except for the short story collection, and I m glad it was the last because I found it be the best kind of fairy tale It actually has no direct mention ...My favorite book by Iain M Banks, who is one of my absolute favorite authors It s in his Culture series of novels, but that s only shown by a couple of minor details It s fully a stand alone novel sci fi with a fantasy feel to it I stayed up late late late last night finishin...In this volume of Culture s series, the author gives a hint on historical fiction genre Nice touch.4 Consider Phlebas Culture, 1 4 The Player of Games Culture, 2 4 Use of Weapons Culture, 3 4 The State of the Art Culture, 4 4 Excession Culture, 5 4 Inversions Culture, 6 TR Loo...This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers To view it, click here This is my favourite Culture novelprobably because it has the least amount of the Culture in it The smarmy robots, superintelligent AI Minds, and laissez faire posthumans are all cool and everything, but after you ve hung out with them for a few volumes they get kinda same y Also, they never pick up the tab at bars Something about money being barbaric I think.With Inversions we get, um, an inversion I guess, of what Banks seems to normally do with his Culture stories Huh Neat how that wo This is my favourite Culture novelprobably because it has the least amount of the Culture in it The smarmy robots, superintelligent AI Minds, and laissez faire posthumans are all cool and everything, but after you ve hung out with them for a few volumes they get kinda same y Also, they never pick up the tab at bars Something about money being barbaric I think.With Inversions we get, um, a...

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07 August 2017

Iain M. Banks