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Finished A Scanner Darkly, am working on The Kobra Manifesto - Adam Hall, and still enjoying The Invention of Air.
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Good movie, probably bears about as much relation to the book as Bladerunner to Do Androids Dream of electric Sheep, but stands on it's own anyway.
On my birthday I had a 50% book voucher at a local store and grabbed Transition by Ian Banks and have just now started reading it, interesting and odd so far.
Checking his bibliography I notice a few I have missed.
I like this description of Matter by Banks, i may have to try it next.
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"It's a real shelf-breaker," he says enthusiastically. "It's 204,000 words long and the last 4,000 consist of appendices and glossaries. It's so complicated that even in its complexity it's complex. I'm not sure the publishers will go for the appendices, but readers will need them. It's filled with neologisms and characters who disappear for 150 pages and come back, with lots of flashbacks and -forwards. And the story involves different civilizations at different stages of technological evolution. There's even one group who have disappeared up their own fundaments into non-matter-based societies".
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