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Title	:	Surface Detail (Culture #9)
Author	:	Iain M. Banks
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 627 pages
Published	:	October 28th 2010 by Orbit/Hachette Book Group (first published October 7th 2010)
Categories	:	Science Fiction. Fiction. Space. Space Opera

Surface Detail (Culture #9)

Iain M. Banks

Hardcover | Pages: 627 pages

Rating: 4.25 | 22362 Users | 988 Reviews

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It begins in the realm of the Real, where matter still matters. It begins with a murder. It will not end until the Culture has gone to war with death itself. Lededje Y'breq is one of the Intagliated, her marked body bearing witness to a family shame, her life belonging to a man whose lust for power is without limit. Prepared to risk everything for her freedom, her release, when it comes, is at a price. To put things right she will need the help of the Culture. Benevolent, enlightened and almost infinitely resourceful tho it may be, the Culture can only do so much for any individual.

With the assistance of one of its most powerful - and arguably deranged - warships, Lededje finds herself heading into a combat zone not even sure which side the Culture is really on.

A brutal, far-reaching war is already raging within the digital realms that store the souls of the dead and it's about to erupt into reality. It started in the realm of the Real & that is where it will end. It will touch countless lives and affect entire civilizations, but at the center of it all is a young woman whose need for revenge masks another motive altogether.

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Original Title:	Surface Detail
ISBN:	0316123404 (ISBN13: 9780316123402)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	Culture #9
Characters:	Lededje Y'breq, Joiler Veppers, Yime Nsokyi, Himerance, Dr. Sulbazghi, Sensia, Vatueil, Prin, Demeisen, Chay, Errun, Hibin Jasken, Bettlescroy
Setting:	Sichult The Realm of the Real
Literary Awards:	Locus Award Nominee for Best Science Fiction Novel (2011), Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis Nominee for Bestes ausländisches Werk (Best Foreign Work) (2012), Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire for Traduction (2012), Tähtivaeltaja Award Nominee (2013), Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Science Fiction (2010)

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Feeling ill and wanted an easy read. Not too easy these days if you are not a Potter or a Twilight fan... Iain M. Banks has always provided a fine dark vision sparkling with irreverence and a sort of tongue in cheek view of his own creations.Needless to say, "Surface Detail" provides the sort of fractal complexity coupled with topological intricacy that one has come to expect. Not sure that the plot matters too much as long as it has a beginning, a middle and an end. Its the "surface details"

Thought experiment time: Would a hardliner faith culture with high tech create a virtual hell to stay in power and make everyone afraid of getting inside that creepy, artificial purgatory if they misbehave?This idea could be expanded, for instance with school excursions to hell to show the pupils what happens if one is nasty or for the permanent display of how hellish the sinners are suffering. Sending the one or other poor soul back to earth to tell about the cruelties may be a fine

I'm a big Banks fan in both of his incarnations. He's one of the giants for me, of SF and plain fiction in general. As with all the Culture novels he has the outstanding Culture 'mythos' backdrop to the story and like all his books he mixes original ideas with a range of characters that evoke sympathy and dislike in the reader, sometimes in the same character. This book has a brilliant central idea (do read this to find out what it is) and several threads to the plot-line. Now this where a lot

Thought experiment time: Would a hardliner faith culture with high tech create a virtual hell to stay in power and make everyone afraid of getting inside that creepy, artificial purgatory if they misbehave?This idea could be expanded, for instance with school excursions to hell to show the pupils what happens if one is nasty or for the permanent display of how hellish the sinners are suffering. Sending the one or other poor soul back to earth to tell about the cruelties may be a fine



I am taking a break from Iain M. Banks, I have decided. To be precise, I decided this about halfway through this book, when the meandering plot and lots of torture (not approval of torture, but lots of it) were taking their toll. I stand by that. I was initially thinking of it as a permanent break, but the end of Surface Detail somehow convinced me that while I might need a break, perhaps even of a year or two, I may come back and finish off the Culture novels at some point. Note: The rest of

I developed a love/hate relationship with this particular Ian Banks book. As usual, Banks books span a galaxy, with big ideas crossing big ships, and even bigger events. It started out fairly strong, introducing the host of characters that would take the reader into the middle part of the book, where it just seemed to bog down in cumbersome descriptions of why the Culutre doesnt like virtual Hell and why they were fighting those who felt it was their right to have virtual Hells and a few