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muscles like this? posted: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. It comes from the T.S. Eliot poem the Wasteland: IV. DEATH BY WATER PHLEBAS the Phoenician, a fortnight dead, Forgot the cry of gulls, and the deep seas swell And the profit and loss. A current under sea 315 Picked his bones in whispers. As he rose and fell He passed the stages of his age and youth Entering the whirlpool. Gentile or Jew O you who turn the wheel and look to windward, 320 Consider Phlebas, who was once handsome and tall as you. As to how this relates... I don't remember 
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http://www.powells.com/s?kw=neal+asher Bam. US shipped and not from Amazon.
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Dijkstracula posted:I'm about half way through Caliban's War right now. It's pretty fun beach reading, and overall I think it's a worthy sequel to Leviathan Wakes, though it starts off kinda awkwardly and even for summer reading, some of the plot points are telegraphed miles away (oh by the way we have a hull breach; I sure hope it isn't the protomolecule or anything). While I overall like the new character's POV chapters, Holden without MIller is super grating; Fred ripping into him and firing him from the OPA was almost worth it.. But still, it's superfun. Yeah not a bad sequel, definitely setting up things to be finished in the 3rd book. Avasarala was great. Holden was lovely and annoying 99% of the book.
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http://www.danielabraham.com/2012/03/29/some-big-news-about-the-expanse/ It was definitely billed as a trilogy, but that blog post confuses me. 3 more novels in addition to that... I guess?
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