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Finished Iain M. Banks’ Matter last night. Probably my favorite display of writing virtuosity so far. The sheer amount of world-building crammed into a single story... and literally into a single world. Wow. The shellworld idea is a sci-fi narrative engineering masterpiece.
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So that’s 4/9 Culture novels finished Use of Weapons Hydrogen Sonata Look to Windward Matter Next up: Player of Games which I started but abandoned previously. Probably the most inventive and richly imagined (in a baroque way) SF world-building I’ve read ever.
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