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Maybe someone can answer my question but what's the deal with the title for the first Culture novel, Consider Phlebas? I just finished it tonight and have no idea why it was called that.
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DanceRobot posted:I don't get the hate for Consider Phlebas. What I always thought would be awesome would be to have someone who knew absolutely nothing about the culture series or that such a series even existed (since that would give them a hint as to the outcome of the novel) and let them read it. Horza's feelings give the impression that the Culture are completely deserving of his hate and are on the verge of losing the war. Plus you never really expect a protagonist in a scifi novel to be on the losing side. That's pretty much what happened to me and I really liked it! I had heard about the Culture series but nothing specific so I went in with a blank slate.
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Jun 25, 2009 04:17
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lilbean posted:I would suspect this is Accelerando, by Charles Stross. Its definitely Accelerando, although in that it wasn't put forward as a good thing. Not a novel but the manga Blame! is an interesting look into the far, far, far future. Its about a guy named Killy as he wanders through the "Megastructure" which is a solar system sized construct in which the remnants of humanity live.
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Dec 22, 2010 12:57
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My problem with the Rama sequels was that weird backing off of the whole setting Clarke created with "Rendezvous" which had people living all throughout the solar system. Then the second book shows up and its all "naw, everybody moved back to Earth and it basically turned into the present." I also didn't like how a lot of the story in the third book was driven by characters acting like morons.
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