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So I've chewed my way through all of Alastair Reynolds' and Peter F. Hamilton's bibliographies and I'm looking for something new. Has anyone read stuff by either of them and how does it compare to Banks? EDIT: I just realized that there's a space opera thread 
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For my typography thesis last year I went with a rather strange title My professor was a little confused about the title 
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Feb 27, 2010 22:14
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xiw posted:9 Oct in the US - so not far off! Just far enough 
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Cardiovorax posted:After having finished all the books up to Matter now, I've got to say what I really like about the Culture novels is that Banks doesn't try to whitewash his vision, they aren't apologetic. I actually don't like the Culture as shown in the novels. Maybe it's because we only ever get to see it at its worst, but the novels make it clear to me that it isn't only a good thing, it's also a place filled with shallow idiots and hubristic machine gods who gently caress up in their overestimation of themselves as often as they don't. That's a lot better than other series with similar themes manage to do, like the Golden Age trilogy, which basically finishes on the note that everything that happens was predicted and manipulated by some superintelligence to lead to a happy end all along. For all the fancy sci-fi toys it actually feels like one of the more realistic future societies I've read about. The Culture definitely has its flaws but I think Banks likes to write about them because writing about the 99.99% of the time where everything is peachy would be boring as all hell. Also, how the hell did you get that custom title?!
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Sep 9, 2012 01:56
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Mmm, is that Vitesse Sans/Forza BastardlySkull?
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