The Culture Series of Iain M. Banks a Critical Introduction

The only negative of this volume that I can count against it is the fact that it leans on plot synopses too much. It DOES bill itself as a Critical Introduction, but I wish it were more critical and less introduction. A good amount of space is devoted to secondary scholarship, but there’s also more than a little that’s left out; it feels like more space is devoted to non-scholarly book reviews; but then why would they be so highlighted in a critical introduction? Still, good exploration of the series as a whole.