I'll admit it. I'm easily influenced. This time I lay the blame at the feet of Charlie Stross.
Anyway, I snagged this one as a present to myself and I enjoyed it immensely. The book bounces between several viewpoints - Vatueil, a soldier in the War in Heaven over the fate of the virtual hells, Lededje Y'breq - a indentured sex-slave who is murdered and reincarnated (its complex) and Yime, an agent of the Cutlure's Contact service, Quietus Branch (they deal with the virtually incarnated dead people). Trust me - this all makes sense as it goes along.
So, was it good? Yes. Not as good as Use of Weapons or Consider Phlebas, but still pretty darn good. As usual Banks has tons of mad, brilliant ideas and does interesting things with them.
Anyway, I snagged this one as a present to myself and I enjoyed it immensely. The book bounces between several viewpoints - Vatueil, a soldier in the War in Heaven over the fate of the virtual hells, Lededje Y'breq - a indentured sex-slave who is murdered and reincarnated (its complex) and Yime, an agent of the Cutlure's Contact service, Quietus Branch (they deal with the virtually incarnated dead people). Trust me - this all makes sense as it goes along.
So, was it good? Yes. Not as good as Use of Weapons or Consider Phlebas, but still pretty darn good. As usual Banks has tons of mad, brilliant ideas and does interesting things with them.
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