Excession
Shared by:usskhan
Iain Banks
64Kbps
From versatile Scottish writer Banks, another sf yarn about the tolerant, diverse, far-future Culture (The Player of Games, 1989, etc.). The Culture is subtly controlled by prodigiously intelligent artificial Minds, who, Banks intimates, spend most of their spare time navel-gazing. Here, a huge, enigmatic object referred to as the Excession appears in space and interacts with the Culture’s energy grid in ways previously considered impossible. Diplomat Byr Genar-Hofoen of the Department of Special Circumstances is sent to investigate–but, sidetracked by beautiful, talented, spoiled-brat operative Ulver Seich and by old flame Dajeil Gelian, it will be a long time before he draws near the object. Meanwhile, certain Minds occupying a vast array of self-controlled spaceships suspect that still other Minds are involved in a conspiracy–but to what end? With the Culture thus distracted by the Excession, the cruel, dangerously expansionist alien Affront seize the opportunity to hijack a Culture battle fleet and start a war that they only gradually realize they’ve been suckered into and can’t possibly win. Brilliantly inventive and amusing–whole sections read like strings of knowing jokes–but a mess: Chattering spaceships with splendid if confusing names (e.g., Not Invented Here and Shoot Them Later) don’t compensate for the absence of real characters.
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| Creation Date: | Mon, 01 Nov 2010 17:15:54 -0400 |
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This post has 5 comments
November 3rd, 2010
Dude fix the feeds and PLS once you upload something don’t stop seeding it before someone dloads it …
July 22nd, 2012
The narrator is horrible. I love Iain M. Banks but couldn’t listen to this torrent because of the terrible narration.
February 17th, 2014
Agree, narration is unlistenable.
May 28th, 2016
Completely agree! couldn’t go any further with it. hope theres another reading somewhere.
…also just noticed the time stamp of the other comments, heres hoping someone will reply in 2018!
November 10th, 2017
trying to find the alleged Peter Kenny reading. twice I’ve ended up with a narrator who sounds like a Tory back bencher choking on pheasant. Or something. HELP!
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