Phlebas

"Consider Phlebas" is without a doubt strongest in its beggining and its ending sequence.

Genre Classics: Consider Phlebas - Iain M. Banks (Book Review) 2010

"Consider Phlebas" is without a doubt strongest in its beggining and its ending sequence.

Archive 2010-07-01 2010

Someone please tell me that Phlebas is the worst of the lot, or that it isn't representative of the rest of the series.

Wondering What to Read Next? 2005

The first four -- Consider Phlebas, The Player of Games, Use of Weapons, and Excession -- are stronger than the more recent Inversions, Look to Windward and Matter.

Iain M. Banks' Culture (Finally) Heads to the Big Screen 2009

Plainly put, The Player of Games is one of the best of the bunch, second only to Consider Phlebas.

2010 June « Show Me SciFi 2010

That way, you'll know immediately who Phlebas the Phoenician was and learn that the phrase "a current under sea picked his bones in whispers" builds on imagery from Shakespeare's The Tempest.

John Lundberg: Raising the Bar for Digital Poetry John Lundberg 2011

That way, you'll know immediately who Phlebas the Phoenician was and learn that the phrase "a current under sea picked his bones in whispers" builds on imagery from Shakespeare's The Tempest.

John Lundberg: Raising the Bar for Digital Poetry John Lundberg 2011

That said, Consider Phlebas and Excession are both brilliant, and the other Culture novels are excellent is as well.

Iain M. Banks' Culture (Finally) Heads to the Big Screen 2009

That way, you'll know immediately who Phlebas the Phoenician was and learn that the phrase "a current under sea picked his bones in whispers" builds on imagery from Shakespeare's The Tempest.

John Lundberg: Raising the Bar for Digital Poetry John Lundberg 2011

That way, you'll know immediately who Phlebas the Phoenician was and learn that the phrase "a current under sea picked his bones in whispers" builds on imagery from Shakespeare's The Tempest.

John Lundberg: Raising the Bar for Digital Poetry John Lundberg 2011