Those diverse brush strokes are weaved together in a multifaceted symphony of color that defies our ability to imagine. I wood ½ thot bi now sumbudy wood ½ ritten a revyoo in the styl uv Bascule but it apeerz not 2 b the cays.

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Although Banks is primarily known for his space opera CULTURE books like The Player of Games, Consider Phlebas, Use of Weapons , as well as non-SF novels like The Wasp Factory and Walking on Glass, I’ve found that every book of his I’ve read has been worthwhile, and Feersum Endjinn in particular was a treat.

The most distinctive aspect of Feersum Endjinn (1994) is definitely the chapters narrated in phonetic spelling by Bascule the Teller, an amiable young man who is seeking a tiny talking ant named Ergates that was snatched away by a strange bird. Although the dimming sun still shines on the vast, towering walls of Serehfa Fastness, the end is close at hand. Asura is a mysterious woman reborn into the Fastness, who has amnesia but knows she needs to deliver a message, without knowing the content or recipient. The Beyonder factions despair of locating Taak and the secret in the time available before the recapture of Ulubis, and retreat.

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When Extremely Upper Management sends for Linus, he learns that his next assignment is a mission to an island orphanage for especially dangerous kids. It’s convoluted but so worth it, because I was able to get Feersum Endjinn, Excession, and The Algebraist that way. The rooms in the higher levels—each level standing a couple kilometers tall—are perpetually cold, and one of them holds a year-round ski-resort.

She helps him climb most of the way up and then lets go of the rope so he'll fall to his death, as she knows she's in a Lotus-Eater Machine. It is also revealed that the Dwellers have been harbouring artificial intelligences from Mercatoria persecution. They lead an almost anarchic existence based on kudos, and inhabit the majority of gas-giant planets in the galaxy. They arrange to meet like this, giving the appearance of having a secret affair so they can pass information through their conspiracy network. Chief Scientist Gadfium is about to receive the mysterious message she has been waiting for from the Plain of Sliding Stones.

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The section takes place entirely inside the virtual construct of the Crypt, and on its own makes little sense without the context provided in previous chapters.What he’s proposing here is less literal than that, but it’s unmistakable what kind of future he ascribes to, whether Culture or not: it’s a bunch of queer, brown, trans women and people. The novel ends with Taak, having left Ulubis and joined the Beyonders, suggesting to a lifelong friend he has just discovered is an AI, "One day we'll all be free".

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Bascule playz an eesentil rol in helping the gud giz win the day and he duznt even no it (until the end, enwayz). Whilst you may not have found any play in any of the driveshafts, thats not to say you haven't got a CV joint (inner or outer, inners tend not to rattle on turns) lacking enough lube. The themes of Feersum Endjinn are cyberpunk through and through, but the setting—even in the entirely virtual Crypt—is much closer to that of epic fantasy. The elevator itself is defunct, since everyone who was interested in space went there centuries ago.has a knack for creating endearing characters, and readers will grow to love Arthur and the orphans alongside Linus.