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Feersum Endjinn by Iain M. Banks
Going Gently by David Nobbs
... Hitchhiker's and Consider Phlebas and suggest these instead....
Helliconia Spring / Summer / Winter (Aldiss)
Feersum Endjinn (Banks)
Altered Carbon (Morgan)
Cryptonomicon (Stephenson)
The Golden Age / Phoenix Exultant / Golden Transcendence (Wright)
Blindsight (Watt ... ... adventure.
If someone came from Life of Pi or the Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time I might recommend Feersum Endjinn.
And if they like detective stories Thirteen or Kiln People.
There are a lot of "classics" to pick from as well, obviously, but in many cases it ... ... New Sun by Gene Wolfe
Accelerando by Charles Stross
Appleseed by John Clute
The Maze of Death by Philip K. Dick
Feersum Endjinn by Iain M. Banks
Bugs by John Sladek
The Dying Earth by Jack Vance
Gateway by Frederik Pohl
Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson
Blue Mars by Kim ... ... Grammar, sentence construction etc are irrelevant as any quick glance through Finnegan's Wake, Trainspotting or even Feersum Endjinn will tell you.
Objective to me means a set of rules or procedures that can be applied to any text, at any time, that will give an unchangeable rating.
So, ... I must admit to liking all Banks' books including The Algebraist and which I liked somewhat better than Feersum Endjinn. I thought Matter was very readable and didn't take that long to get through even though I'm no a fan of doorstoppers. It was certainly more readable than Asher's Brass Man ... I must admit to liking all Banks' books including The Algebraist and which I liked somewhat better than Feersum Endjinn. I thought Matter was very readable and didn't take that long to get through even though I'm no a fan of doorstoppers. It was certainly more readable than Asher's Brass Man ... In that case the author has done a piss-poor job at conveying that. I've read and enjoyed The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress, Feersum Endjinn, Riddley Walker, and Gradisil all of which mutate language to a greater or lesser degree. If the writer chooses to write in some future dialect which is ... Feersum Endjinn is, like Banks' earlier The Bridge, written in phonetic Scots. And it's not an accent but a dialect. Ye ken? Iain M. Banks's Feersum Endjinn is narrated by a young man who can't spell, which could be irritating at first, but I found it quite natural after I got used to it. ... it for about a quarter of a century).
Can you imagine what a voice recognition system would make of Riddley Walker or Feersum Endjinn? ... s
End of the World Blues by Jon Courtenay Grimwood
Excession by Iain M. Banks
Falling Free by Lois McMaster Bujold
Feersum Endjinn by Iain M. Banks
Felaheen: The Third Arabesk by Jon Courtenay Grimwood
Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman
Green Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson
Harry Pott ... ... bedded in and I didn't notice it. I don't mind books with a regional identity or difficult accent (I had no problem with Feersum Endjinn either but I know a lot of people did). As I am in the UK and a Briton I don't mind reliance on UK idiom although I can see it might hurt US reaction to ... Still wading through Hartwell & Cramer's The Ascent of Wonder, but also now working on Banks' Feersum Endjinn and also George Macdonald Fraser's Royal Flash, a lend from a friend (that's the one where GMF re-works The Prisoner of Zenda with Bismarck as a major player). ... Perdido Street Station and The Scar
Alastair Reynolds's Century Rain and Pushing Ice
Iain M. Banks's Feersum Endjinn and Against a Dark Background
As for books I've read a number of times but which I don't own, the closest would be books I've (sadly) lost: Paul Auste ... ... by Philip K. Dick.
"Emergence" by David R. Palmer
"Farnham's Freehold" by Robert A. Heinlein
"Feersum Endjinn" by Iain M. Banks
"Fitzpatrick's War" by Theodore Judson
"Level 7" by Mordecai Roshwald
"Logan's Run" by William F. Nolan and ... ... ER
"La Stratégie Ender" "Ender's Game" de Orson Scott CARD
"Croisière sans escale" "Non-Stop" de Brian ALDISS
"Feersum Endjinn" de Iain M. BANKS
"L'Homme éclaté" "The Man Who Folded Himself" de David GERROLD
"The Butterfly Kid" de Chester ANDERSON
"La réserve des Lu ... ... of the 3-for-PhP 199 deal and got myself three novels by Iain M. Banks: Inversions, Against a Dark Background, and Feersum Endjinn.
Had I been able to go back, I would have probably picked up Vernor Vinge's A Deepness in the Sky from A Different Bookstore, but I told myself to ...
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