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Review7463644100 Tue, 22 Apr 2025 14:39:51 -0700 <![CDATA[Franti added 'Excession']]> /review/show/7463644100 Excession by Iain M. Banks Franti gave 4 stars to Excession (Culture, #5) by Iain M. Banks
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Such an impressive deployment of imagination to build a distinctive, appealing world from scratch, just to finish the story with a marvel-style skybeam.

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Excession by Iain M. Banks
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- Hello? This is Kinda Disappointed, do you read me?

- Hello Disappointed, this is Still Plenty of Good Bits. I'm another superintelligent AI entity...

- Well of course you are, Bits! Let's skip the background and assume the reader knows all about the Culture universe. So, what did you think of "Excession"?

- Um, not too bad, considering the obvious problems. I mean, how is a human going to describe beings a trillion times smarter than he is?

- Maybe he shouldn't have tried?

- Hello, I'm Too Many Subplots. Can I join in?

- Hi Subplots! So what was your opinion?

- I liked a lot of the story. But I think he should have split it up into two or three different books. If you're not a Mind, you'd probably find it a bit confusing.

- Did the threads actually have that much to do with each other?

- I'm not sure. I'll have to read it again. Give me an infinitesimal fraction of a second.

- Well, I've already read it eight million times, and I still don't know.

- Is this me talking, or you?

- Oh hello, Cheap Shot, I was sure you'd turn up. What's new?

- Um, I've just had an ineffable vision of the whole of Creation.

- Cool! So what was it like?

- Oh, I don't know. Ineffable. I guess I shouldn't say too much about it.

- Fair enough. Well, talking of which, I have some important stuff to do that's completely incomprehensible to carbon-based lifeforms.

- Me too!

- Yes, we've already wasted nearly a microsecond on this conversation. So...

- Wait, how's your permanantly pregnant human friend? She sounded kind of interesting.

- Oh, she's not in this part of the story. Sorry.

- Just thought I'd ask. OK, see you in the next jumbled plot fragment!

- Bye!

- Bye!

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