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... some other books) on tor.com if you are quick.
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For Banks I would recommend a Culture novel as your first one. The Player Of Games is probably the most approachable although there is something to be said for starting with Consider Phlebas (it was published first).
Stross is ... ... And it's just the sort of thing NRYB might republish. Perhaps they'll get around to it soon.
Michael Tolkin's books The Player and The Return of the Player are good fun, too, but much less intense and accomplished than West's visionary work.
rebaccanyc:
The Comrade Tulayev waits ... ... - I've just dicovered Iain Banks for myself, and am enjoying him enormously - kept reading until 5 am today to finish The Player of Games. Any of you guys know his books?)
... Well, seems like you still have a few more of Iain M. Banks to do (and then you can start of Iain Banks:-) I've read Player of Games, Against a Dark Background, Wasp Factory and it seems there was another one... ... ines
The adventures of Jig the Goblin. I love books that make me laugh.
24. Consider Phlebas Iain M. Banks
25. The Player of Games Iain M. Banks
26. Excession Iain M. Banks
A friend mentioned that I might like some of Banks' "The Culture" books. I've enjoyed them so far.
... It's been a rough few months.
10. The Player of Games by Iain M. Banks.
I've never been a huge science fiction fan, but this story of a game theorist who finds himself playing an extraordinarily complex game with eerie similarities to real life was pretty interesting. Some disturbingly ... ... mix of reads! and thanks for the comments on them as we are a nosey lot.
I've read a couple of Banks (Wasp Factory, Player of Games and Against a Dark Background), my husband is a big Banks fan. He thought The Algebraist needed editing and thought it not his best work. He has the ... I'm reading my first Culture book, by Iain M. Banks, Player of Games. It's wonderful!! ... chapters in 'Mountain' (two Challenge books - Conversations at Curlow Creek;A Thousand Days in Venice; and a ring-in The Player of Games). Mann's book is far more intricate than the rest but so slow, its plot focusing on the day-to-day doings of a slightly irritating young man in an early ... ... harm you. Its a great reference.
Maybe even some of Bank's culture books. I'm not a big fan, but they are fairly classic The player of games is an early one. ... to the computer game Civilization. Apparently he finally broke the disc so he would finish writing. He is the author of Player of Games...which is a great story.
So, do we send a rescue mission in after him? Or start a post-writing campaign to his profile page. OR, sadly, leave him ... ... It sold both in genre and out.
I would also recommend Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler (dystopian future), Player of Games by Ian M. Banks (political intrigue in highly advanced societies), Salt by Adam Roberts (contrast of two societies with different political philosophies) ... ... rest in no particular order (and excluding anything that would qualify as fantasy):
The Speed of Dark, Elizabeth Moon
Player of Games, Iain M. Banks
I Who Have Never Known Men, Jacqueline Harpman
The latter books of the Holdfast Chronicles by Suzy Charnas
Dazzle of Day, Molly Gl ...
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