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Currently listening to Consider Phlebas by Iain M. Banks on Audible. www.audible.co.uk/pd/B004EQUC4...
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March 19, 2025 at 12:01 PM Everybody can reply
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Kenneth Vernon
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The most immersive world building I've ever experienced. I look forward to taking an immense amount of inspiration (stealing) from this series.

#Booksky #ConsiderPhlebas #CultureSeries #Sci-Fi #ReadingIsFun
March 14, 2025 at 3:32 PM Everybody can reply
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Benji2049
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This week, I read #ConsiderPhlebas by #IainMBanks. It’s a #spaceopera that’s equal parts adventure, comedy, and cynical tragedy. I loved it.

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April 18, 2025 at 2:42 PM Everybody can reply
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Katie Whitehouse
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Latest read. It was entertaining as a distraction from terrible world events, but I think once one has the read the Expanse series, all other epic space adventures will likely pale in comparison...hahaha

#booksky #expanse #spaceopera #scifi
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June 18, 2025 at 3:36 AM Everybody can reply
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A sentence went round & round the inside of his head like a marble spun inside a jug:
"The Jinmoti of Bozlen Two kill the hereditary ritual assassins of the new Yearking's immediate family by drowning them in the tears of the Continental Empathaur in its Sadness Season."
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December 3, 2024 at 10:47 PM Everybody can reply
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fenken.bsky.social
Conversation Kenge
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#QuoteOfTheDay: 'The most reliable method of avoiding self extinction was not to equip one's self with the means to accomplish it in the first place'

We really should pay more attention to science fiction...

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January 24, 2025 at 3:00 PM Everybody can reply
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Squeeful Raven
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It’s World Book Day! I love reading and I’m currently reading “Consider Phlebas”, by Iain M. Banks. The first of a 9 book SciFi saga within The Culture Series. I have read them all before and it’s a joy to get back into!

#WorldBookDay #ConsiderPhlebas #Reading #Kobo #Books #BookSky #SpeirGorm
A Kobo e-reader sits open laying against an RGB Purple keyboard on top of a colourful space themed mouse mat. On the screen of the Kobo is the cover of the book “Consider Phlebas”, by Iain M. Banks.
March 6, 2025 at 12:29 PM Everybody can reply
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Chepetico (He/Him)🇺🇲🇨🇷
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...aviatrixes & their fight to become astronauts. After that, I'm starting #ConsiderPhlebas. Do you have any recommendations for my list?
August 15, 2025 at 4:05 PM Everybody can reply
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Owen Lloyd
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@nicolerayner.bsky.social looks to windward atop a pile of the discarded and expired…

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January 28, 2025 at 9:56 AM Everybody can reply
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John Brophy
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Is there any news on a new attempt to bring Iain M. Banks' Consider Phlebas to our screens? I've always thought it would be great, especially with my imagined Death in Vegas, and Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross soundtrack.

#ConsiderPhlebas #BooksWithJohn #IainMBanks #TheCulture
November 23, 2024 at 11:17 AM Everybody can reply
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philspreck
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The Lesekreis has chosen: Als nächstes lesen wir #ConsiderPhlebas von #IainBanks.
November 1, 2025 at 2:03 PM Everybody can reply
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Tom Malaher
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And you thought Three Body Problem was unfilmable...
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New Amazon Sci-Fi Series Is the Anti-Star Trek (and Marvel Director Is Involved)
Amazon is developing a TV adaptation of the Culture series by author Iain M. Banks. This acclaimed 10-book series is credited with reviving the space opera genre and presenting a radically different v...
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February 27, 2025 at 5:29 AM Everybody can reply
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root⚗️eruditorum.œrg
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XOXARLE: I am reminded of one race [the Fanch] who set themselves against us…Their conceit was that the galaxy belonged to them because their water god was supposed to have made the galaxy in their image.
AVIGER: Never heard of them.
X: No, you wouldn’t have. We annihilated them.
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A comic book style illustration of Iain M. Banks sipping scotch and thinking about characters from his novel Consider Phlebas.
March 7, 2025 at 8:28 PM Everybody can reply
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Association for Scottish Literature
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"Captain," Xoralundra said briskly, "in this war there have to date been fourteen single-duel engagements between Type 5 light cruisers and Mountain class General Contact Units. All have ended in victory for the enemy. Have you ever seen what is left of a light cruiser after a GCU has finished with it?" "No, Querl." "Neither have I, and I have no intention of seeing it for the first time from the inside. Proceed at once." Xoralundra hit the helmet button again. He fastened his gaze on Horza. "I shall do what I can to secure your release from the service with sufficient funds, if you succeed. Now, once we have made contact with the main body of the fleet you will go by fast picket to Schar's World. You will be given a shuttle there, just beyond the Quiet Barrier. It will be unarmed, although it will have the equipment we think you may need, including some close-range hyperspace Spectrographic analyzers, should the Mind conduct a limited destruct."
February 25, 2025 at 5:59 PM Everybody can reply
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JP Spalding - #amQuerying SciFi 🪐
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#ConsiderPhlebas A wild action romp through an expansive space opera 🪐📚

Pros:
Interesting aliens and tech
Unique well developed characters

Cons:
Long fight scenes dragging
Often clunky writing
The 100 f*ing pages of cannibals
Consider phlebas by Ian m banks
April 6, 2025 at 1:36 AM Everybody can reply
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Books I’ve Read
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Close to 40 years later(published 1987) the Culture’s Minds (advanced AI) don’t seem so improbable anymore 7.5/10 #IainMBanks #ConsiderPhlebas
December 30, 2024 at 9:23 AM Everybody can reply
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Hyperionoon
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Finished Consider Phlebas yesterday and oh my god it’s spinning around my head. So excited to read more of the series!!

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A series of sketches showing character portraits and locations described in Ian M. Banks’ novel ‘Consider Phlebas’.
January 8, 2025 at 11:51 AM Everybody can reply
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Drakona Ho Megas 🏴🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈
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Started a reread of Iain Banks Culture series and came across this gem in the appendixes of "Consider Phlebas".

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Excerpt from Iain M Banks Consider Phlebas (book 1 of The Culture series): Stafl-Preonsa Fal Shilde 'Nseestra dam Crose survived another serious climbing accident, continued to out-guess machines millions of times more intelligent than she was, changed sex several times, bore two children, joined Contact after the war, went primitive without permission on a stage two uncontacted with a tribe of wild horse-women, slaved for a dirigible Hypersage in a Blokstaar airsphere, returned to the Culture for the drone Jase's transcorporation into a group-mind, was caught in an avalanche while climbing but lived to tell the tale, had another child, then accepted an invitation to join Contact's Special Circumstances section and spent nearly a hundred years (as a male) as emissary to the then recently contacted Million-Star Anarchy of Soveleh. Subsequently she became a teacher on an Orbital in a small cluster near the lesser Cloud, published a popular and acclaimed autobiography, then disappeared a few years later, aged 407, while on a solo cruising holiday on an old Dra'Azon Ring.
December 31, 2024 at 9:47 PM Everybody can reply
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Tonio Loewald
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Since this is a new platform I guess I should also post here that I don’t know why folks are blowing hundreds of millions of dollars making garbage like House of the Dragon or whatever when Iain Banks’s Culture novels are just sitting there.

#considerphlebas #useofweapons #excession
November 23, 2024 at 6:42 PM Everybody can reply
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Tom Urwin
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
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#BookChallenge
17/20
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A smooth, sleek, disc shaped spaceship sits on a beach next to an ocean. The reflection on the spaceship shows sand, sea, sky, and a single person on the beach.
December 2, 2024 at 12:11 PM Everybody can reply
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Bleeding Cool
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Consider Phlebas, the first novel in Iain M. Banks' classic Science Fiction series "The Culture," is being developed as a series by Amazon. / #ConsiderPhlebas #IainMBanks
Consider Phlebas, the first novel in Iain M. Banks' classic Science Fiction series "The Culture," is being developed as a series by Amazon. / #ConsiderPhlebas #IainMBanks
Consider Phlebas, the first novel in Iain M. Banks' classic Science Fiction series "The Culture," is being developed as a series by Amazon.
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February 26, 2025 at 3:08 PM Everybody can reply
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