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I enjoyed this book, although I‘ve never read any of the Culture novels before. I have to admit to feeling a little lukewarm about it; while I liked some of the characters, the meandering storyline that didn‘t seem to have major consequences for our main character‘s life didn‘t wrap things up satisfyingly for me.

“Why had he done it? Why couldn't it just not have happened? Why didn't they have time-travel, why couldn't he go back and stop it happening? Ships that could circumnavigate the galaxy in a few years, and count every cell in your body from light-years off, but he wasn't able to go back one miserable day and alter one tiny, stupid, idiotic, shameful #decision...”

This cover is 1000 x cooler than my cover. #QuotsyFeb18

My fav off-world sci-fi might be the early novels in Iain M. Banks‘ Culture series. I‘m also a big fan of Hitchhiker‘s, everything Ender‘s Game, Hyperion, and a billion brilliant space opera comics (Saga! Descender! Bitch Planet! Southern Cross!) but I really think Banks is underrated/overlooked given the weight of his genius. Use of Weapons & Consider Phlebas are some of the finest books I‘ve ever read, regardless of genre. #giveawayartemis

Second in the culture novels will be my second culture novel.... Errrrr, neat! :-) #TBRsomeday

Interesting take on living our world as if it were a game- and the obsessions that come from that.

#shadows #FeistyFeb @RealLifeReading

Loved this book, loved the story
All praise to a brilliant writer

If you like sci-fi and you have not read Banks then you should give him a try, he is worth it. His Culture series of which games is the second is set in a galaxy full of aliens in which mankind has become part of (and eventually the bio leaders of a faction which has embraced and granted full ...