It reads like fantasy: The setting is clearly alien, with two suns and multiple moons, and it's set in a roughly medieval setting, perhaps sort of an early renaissance equivalent.īut if you've read the other Culture novels, the book is littered with hints that the two main characters whose respective stories are intertwined, forming the "inversions", are clearly Culture. On the surface it's not even clear to a casual reader that it is science fiction. If you have, you may either love or hate this depending on whether you read Banks books for their "space opera" qualities or for the twists and turns and explorations of culture and alien societies. If you haven't read any Culture novels before, don't start with this. It's a novel set in Iain Banks massive Culture setting, but at the same time not.
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