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Matter

Culture Series, Book 8

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Matter

Yazan: Iain M. Banks
Seslendiren: Toby Longworth
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The novels of Iain M. Banks have forever changed the face of modern science fiction. His Culture books combine breathtaking imagination with exceptional storytelling, and have secured his reputation as one of the most extraordinary and influential writers in the genre.

The intricate structure of a Shellworld - an arti­ficial planet of spheres-within-spheres - is matched only by the machinations of its inhabitants.

On the eighth sphere of Sursamen, a man witnesses the murder of his father and flees, searching for the one - maybe two - people who could clear his name. For his brother, this means a life lived under constant threat of treachery, while for their sister, Djan Seriy Anaplian, it means returning to a place she'd thought abandoned forever.

Anaplian is not who she once was. She has become an agent of the Culture's Special Circumstances section, charged with high-level interference in civilisations throughout the greater galaxy.

Concealing her new identity - and her particular set of abilities - might be a dangerous strategy. In the world to which she returns, nothing is quite as it seems; and determining the appropriate level of interference in someone else's war is never a simple matter.

The Culture series:
Consider Phlebas
The Player of Games
Use of Weapons
Excession
Inversions
Look to Windward
Matter
Surface Detail
The Hydrogen Sonata
The State of the Art

Other books by Iain M. Banks:
Against a Dark Background
Feersum Endjinn
The Algebraist

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This is a book of travel, archeology, hi-tech, low-tech and exploration. It is focused around the sons and daughters of an assasinated king of a shell world. The sons, after the kings death, have very different paths to take and the daughter, who is ex-SC, comes back to help them, initially at least. The book is essentially the charting of the 3 main characters journeys, 2 of which are in the shell world itslef (journeying between the levels) and one, the daughters perepective, from within the Culture. The stories are all of course linked and come together albeit in quite an abrupt fashion at the end of the book. Iain Banks describes the shell world, the Culture, the ships and all the smart AI in his usual style and penache. It is a very descriptive book in that a lot of the time you are treated to explanations of the worlds, the levels and environments the characters exists in. The story itself is solid, the human/AI/alien characters are great and you do get a great broad sci-fi novel, with its split between the world of the Culture and the shell-world with it's medievel tech. It is pretty solid, but, and my only gripe, is that it does climax very quickly at the end, you kind of blink and it's over. Matter does bring everything together at the end which is great, but it just does it a bit too quick in my opinion, would have liked a bit more meat in the end game. But niggle aside, I'd recommend this book as another good, solid Culture novel. Very enjoyable. The narration was great as well.

Solid Culture Novel

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This narrator was the best I've heard from an audio book. He mastered the dark comedy of these books and each character was totally different and full of colour. As for the story - this was also top notch. The sheer imagination at play here is staggering. The time scales, the different worlds, the Culture and the rules and politics within the Culture all add up to make something that stays with you a long time after you've finished reading.

The best narrator I've heard

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Iain Banks has an imagination which is overwhelmingly expansive. This book needs a bit of concentration to keep track of the plot lines but it's well worth it if deep Sci Fi is your thing.
Toby Longworth is an amazing narrator with an incredible range of voices. If you pay attention you might recognise some distinctive ones. I'm sure I heard Churchill's at one point! How Toby remembers which voice belongs to which character I can't fathom as there's a bewildering cast including plenty of non humans.
This book is one that you can listen to several times as it's scope covers a huge concept and frankly I had trouble keeping up the first hearing. I look forward to hearing it again.

Vast space opera.

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as an Iain m Banks performance this is as good as can be expected from the master storyteller. the performance was excellent full stop

my only gripe was the poor audiobook chapter structure, which amalgamated multiple book chapters in an individual audiobook chapter. this made it tricky to return to start of an individual chapter if it was contained within an automated audiobook chapter. It does not seem like it would have been a huge burden to structure the audiobook as the physical book have been.

otherwise excellent production.

excellent story and performance, poor structure

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Great voice for my favourite author. Great humour in places. Great story development. Second listening and it still sounded good.

Human story on a universal scale

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