![]() ![]() Faith itself is under attack, the path to the Sublime. The reason confounds everyone but it appears that it may concern their Book of Truth. The argument between the two ships results in the destruction of one, shortly followed by an attack on the high command of Gzlit. Like countless advanced civilisations before them, they are ready to abandon reality and take that final step into a dimension from which few have returned and little is known – except that it has eighteen different types of weather. The Gzilt are progressing through the final days of their countdown towards becoming Sublime. Two ships, or Minds, conduct a polite argument above the planetary fragment of Ablate, a territory belonging to the Gzilt civilisation. I had hopes, then, for The Hydrogen Sonata. I am still a novice in Culture-terms but I aspire to be experienced enough to know when Banks achieves greatness, as he did with Consider Phlebas and Use of Weapons. Peerless writing competes with exquisite humour as well as an imagination that quite frankly risks expanding one’s brain to such an extent there is a chance of it exploding within one’s head. Banks will always produce tingles of anticipatory pleasure. The prospect of a new Culture novel by Iain M. ![]()
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