7/2/2023 0 Comments Excession book![]() While they debate how to treat the Excession, a faction within their group uses this distraction as an opportunity to engineer a compassionate war. On one level, this book is mainly dialogues between ships separated by vast distances. This is essentially a Big Dumb Object story, but what makes it different is that most of the book is spent discussing what to do with it, and setting things up, than actually doing anything to/about the Excession. Iain Banks once again probes the idea that humanity has a place in a post-Singularity galaxy, but we probably won’t be in the driver’s seat. There are only a handful of named human characters in this book, and really only three of them are important to the plot-and even then, they really have very little impact on the A-plot. ![]() Just replace “animals” with “AI Minds (mostly ships)” and you get the idea. I can see why people wouldn’t enjoy this novel, and even though I think I would have liked it with no previous Culture experience, reading other books has given me a deeper appreciation for what is happening here.Įxcession reminds me of children’s books where the main characters are all animals, and humans have very little to do with the plot. ![]() ![]() Everyone told me not to start with Excession, so I didn’t-and honestly that was pretty good advice. Finally, the Culture novel I’ve been waiting to read since I started the series. ![]()
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