No Gravitas Allowed -- The Iain [M.] Banks thread

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Piglet: Jan 22, 2002; Zub! Zub!

Turpitude posted:

And on another note, what are everyone's favourite Banks action scenes?

Consider Phlebas: The main characters are on a ringworld and land on a giant drifting super cruise ship in the fog to steal a laser cannon for their ship. The giant cruise ship slams its billions of tonnes into an even more gigantic iceberg causing it to fold up like an accordion as the main character runs away with his shipmates to leap into a shuttle, leaving a guy behind. The guy who was left behind has a PERSONAL NUKE and he goes nuts trying to kill everyone by setting it off.

From the same book I loved how he ratcheted up the tension with the runaway train. That was such a cinematic moment with them finally realizing what was about to happen when they felt the breeze coming out of the tunnel.

The escape from the ring world was pretty cool too.

Turpitude posted:

The Algebraist: The sailing races on the gas giant with the Dwellers. The betrayal with nano machines, followed by The Major falling into the gas giant and firing upwards before being blasted out of her suit and sliced in half. Then the emergence of the massive Dweller fleet out of the stormwalls to destroy the stupid humans, the rising of the Deniable and the annihilation of an entire enemy fleet, the Dwellers joyfully betting on the spectacle. Hilarious and gripping stuff.

Yes, that scene was awesome. The Dwellers went from ineffectual dandies to technologically superior bad-asses at that point.

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