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Hydrogen Sonata
Hydrogen Sonata | Iain M Banks
"The New York Times "bestselling Culture novel... The Scavenger species are circling. It is, truly, provably, the End Days for the Gzilt civilization. An ancient people, organized on military principles and yet almost perversely peaceful, (…more)
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bekakins
The Hydrogen Sonata | Iain M. Banks
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A bittersweet moment as I finally finish the culture series for September‘s #doublspin
Not my favourite in the series, but still enjoyable! I particularly liked the idea of the elevenstring

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 6mo
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TK-421
The Hydrogen Sonata | Iain M. Banks
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“One should never regret one's excesses, only one's failures of nerve.” #excess #QuotsyDec19

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TobeyTheScavengerMonk
The Hydrogen Sonata | Iain M. Banks
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The last book in the Culture series came in the mail today. I love other individual science fiction books more, but I've read the first 5 of these and I feel comfortable saying this is the second best science fiction series I've ever read.

By the way, a pox on whatever publishing shenanigans lead to the 4 middle books being a different size than the rest. Not cool Orbit!

#bookmail

BeckyWithTheGoodBooks @TobeyTheScavengerMonk I am super anal about all the books in the series being the same. Those middle books would bug me so much. I second the pox! 8y
Sace I third the pox! That's just WRONG. 8y
Beckys_Books It looks like the publisher could use a quality control engineer. 8y
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TobeyTheScavengerMonk
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In the novels of the Culture, gigantic #artificialintelligence called Minds run massive ships and sometimes entire worlds so the near-Utopian near-immortal Culture can party it up across the stars. I own all but book 10 (because then it's finally over) and I've read the first 5.

The Minds name themselves, often to humorous result: Prosthetic Conscience, The Attitude Adjuster, Of Course I Still Love You, Zero Gravitas, Yawning Angel.

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