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List Price: $25.99Amazon.com's Price: $17.15 You Save: $8.84 (34%)Prices subject to change.
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 823.914
EAN: 9780316005364
ISBN: 0316005363
Label: Orbit
Manufacturer: Orbit
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 608
Publication Date: February 27, 2008
Publisher: Orbit
Sales Rank: 11308
Studio: Orbit
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Product Description:
In a world renowned even within a galaxy full of wonders, a crime within a war. For one brother it means a desperate flight, and a search for the one - maybe two - people who could clear his name. For his brother it means a life lived under constant threat of treachery and murder. And for their sister, even without knowing the full truth, it means returning to a place she'd thought abandoned forever.
Only the sister is not what she once was; Djan Seriy Anaplian has changed almost beyond recognition to become an agent of the Culture's Special Circumstances section, charged with high-level interference in civilisations throughout the greater galaxy.
Concealing her new identity - and her particular set of abilities - might be a dangerous strategy, however. In the world to which Anaplian returns, nothing is quite as it seems; and determining the appropriate level of interference in someone else's war is never a simple matter.
MATTER is a novel of dazzling wit and serious purpose. An extraordinary feat of storytelling and breathtaking invention on a grand scale, it is a tour de force from a writer who has turned science fiction on its head.
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Rating:  -
"Matter" is a novel of energy, wit, and vision, all of which I found somewhat lacking in Mr. Banks' recent mainstream novel "The Steep Approach to Garbadale"; he's probably not going to change his publishing habits, but it seems clear he's having a lot more fun, and arguably is more fully engaging himself, with his sf work.
"Matter" deals with civilizations of different technological levels interacting with each other. In fact, it reads in part like a superior fantasy novel, with its low-tech ... Read More
Rating:  -
I'm a huge fan of Iain M. Banks' Culture novels but this one just lost the plot. It feels like he really wanted to write a historical thriller but was forced into crowbarring the story into a Sci-Fi novel. The worst crime of which this book is guilty is that in places it's just plain boring. Pages of pointless exposition which don't really lend themselves to the story..which in itself is really a road to nowhere anyway...the ending feels tacked on (then a big monster comes...and we kill it...the end). ... Read More
Rating:  -
For whatever reason, I just couldn't get into this novel like I could the other Culture novels. Banks's sentence structures seemed winding and vague, so at first I thought this was the problem. I went back and checked against an older novel (Player of Games), and found that the grammar in that was very similar, though. Lots of semi-colons, em-dashes, and asides.
So why was this one so much harder to get into? I think the problem is that while Banks's writing style works okay for Sci-Fi, ... Read More
Rating: -
I'm a huge Iain (M. or no M.) banks fan, and with an upcoming 16-hour flight I was so excited about Matter...
Flight was OK, but "Matter" is disappointing.
The plot progresses in leaps and crawls, in familiar (and beloved) Banks fashion, but the ending - usually a Banks stronghold- is harried and contrived.
It seems that Matter serves as some sort of index for the other Culture books- many gizmo's and scenes are mentioned again, but the lack of development or any real sense ... Read More
Rating: -
Critic: Its a long book. Isn't that a bad thing.
Me: Boring is bad. Long is not. This isn't boring.
Critic: It doesn't push the boundaries of sci-fi, therefore its lame.
Me: Its interesting, creative, and intelligent. Thus by definition its pushing the boundaries of sci-fi.
Critic: But its meadering. It doesn't stay locked on the central plotline like a pitbull on bologna.
Me: Again, boring is bad, meandering isn't.
Critic: ... Read More
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