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The AlgebraistIntroduction of the ebook: The Algebraist
Đánh giá : 4.02 /5 (sao)
It is 4034. Humanity has made it to the stars. Fassin Taak, a Slow Seer at the Court of the Nasqueron Dwellers, will be fortunate if he makes it to the end of the year. The Nasqueron Dwellers inhabit a gas giant on the outskirts of the galaxy, in a system awaiting its wormhole connection to the rest of civilization. In the meantime, they are dismissed as decadents living i It is 4034. Humanity has made it to the stars. Fassin Taak, a Slow Seer at the Court of the Nasqueron Dwellers, will be fortunate if he makes it to the end of the year. The Nasqueron Dwellers inhabit a gas giant on the outskirts of the galaxy, in a system awaiting its wormhole connection to the rest of civilization. In the meantime, they are dismissed as decadents living in a state of highly developed barbarism, hoarding data without order, hunting their own young & fighting pointless formal wars. Seconded to a military-religious order he’s barely heard of—part of the baroque hierarchy of the Mercatoria, the latest galactic hegemony— Taak has to travel again amongst the Dwellers. He is in search of a secret hidden for half a billion years. But with each day that passes a war draws closer—a war threatening to overwhelm everything & everyone he’s ever known. …more
Review ebook The Algebraist
I’ve been reading through all of Banks’ novels these last few years, mostly focusing on The Culture series and working my way outward through his other “M.” novels, and into his “non-M.” writing. This is my fourteenth Banks book, and my second non-culture “M.” novel.
Banks’ had such an interesting way of writing his novels so that the real story unfolds in the background the whole time, mostly hidden. He did this in Consider Phlebas, and again here in The Algebraist. The foreground story is of c I’ve been reading through all of Banks’ novels these last few years, mostly focusing on The Culture series and working my way outward through his other “M.” novels, and into his “non-M.” writing. This is my fourteenth Banks book, and my second non-culture “M.” novel.
Banks’ had such an interesting way of writing his novels so that the real story unfolds in the background the whole time, mostly hidden. He did this in Consider Phlebas, and again here in The Algebraist. The foreground story is of course, engaging, and action-packed in the typical space opera sense, but the more interesting story for me, is what’s happening on the periphery of the main narrative, and it of course deals with Artificial Intelligence, human rights, religion, and the nature of reality.
I have a little headcanon that allows The Algebraist to be a Culture novel, even though officially, I know that it isn’t. My evidence is very thin, and involves something so tropey that I’m glad it just can’t be. It definitely reads like a Culture novel though, which is probably why I enjoyed it so much more than Against a Dark Background. I really struggled with that one, and I’m very pleased that The Algebraist felt like a return to form.
The prose isn’t quite as good as some of his other work, but it’s serviceable, and I can overlook what it lacks in poetic quality in favor of the interesting concepts it explored. …more
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