Matter - New Iain M Banks Culture Novel

[Fruitloop]

My fairly short take on it: crap.

What a disappointment. So much more could have been done with the princess, so much more with the tension between the sychophantic requirements of the prince and the materialist analyses of the servant. It was just paint-by-numbers stuff in the end.
And Crispy, I agree on the mother-and-lover plotlines- what the fuck were the point of those?


Anyway, downloaded the previous Richard Morgan novel "Broken Angels" to read, and that is shaping up quite well.
Don't know what sci-fi to read next... I might have to retreat into 'literature' again for a bit

Broken Angels is excellent.

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

It'd have to be heavily edited. And the showdown has a rather dull setting. Player of Games would make a good first culture movie. maybe.

It was years ago that I read it, but there were some sequences that were just crying out to be cinematised, like the planet which is a giant loop with water inside.