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The first ever collection of Iain Banks’s short fiction, this volume includes the acclaimed novella, …
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Sam started reading The State Of The Art by Iain M. Banks
The State Of The Art by Iain M. Banks
The first ever collection of Iain Banks’s short fiction, this volume includes the acclaimed novella, The State of the Art. …
Sam wants to read Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom by Cory Doctorow
Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom by Cory Doctorow
Bursting with cutting-edge speculation and human insight, Cory Doctorow's Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom is a coming-of-age romantic …
Sam wants to read Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke (Pan science fiction)
Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke (Pan science fiction)
Childhood's End is a 1953 science fiction novel by British author Arthur C. Clarke. The story follows the peaceful alien …
Sam wants to read The City and the Stars / The Sands of Mars by Arthur C. Clarke
Sam rated Use of Weapons: 4 stars
Use of Weapons by Iain M. Banks (Culture, #3)
The man known as Cheradenine Zakalwe was one of Special Circumstances' foremost agents, changing the destiny of planets to suit …
Sam finished reading Use of Weapons by Iain M. Banks (Culture, #3)
Use of Weapons by Iain M. Banks (Culture, #3)
The man known as Cheradenine Zakalwe was one of Special Circumstances' foremost agents, changing the destiny of planets to suit …
Sam quoted Use of Weapons by Iain M. Banks (Culture, #3)
The man known as Cheradenine Zakalwe was one of Special Circumstances' foremost agents, changing the …
“Can’t machines build these faster?” he asked the woman, looking around the starship shell.
“Why, of course!” she laughed.
“Then why do you do it?”
“It’s fun. You see one of these big mothers sail out those doors for the first time, heading for deep space, three hundred people on board, everything working, the Mind quite happy, and you think, I helped build that. The fact a machine could have done it faster doesn’t alter the fact that it was you who actually did it.”
— Use of Weapons by Iain M. Banks (Culture, #3)
Sam quoted Use of Weapons by Iain M. Banks (Culture, #3)
The man known as Cheradenine Zakalwe was one of Special Circumstances' foremost agents, changing the …
He walked for days, stopping at bars and restaurants whenever he felt thirsty, hungry or tired; mostly they were automatic and he was served by little floating trays, though a few were staffed by real people. They seemed less like servants and more like customers who’d taken a notion to help out for a while.
“Of course I don’t have to do this,” one middle-aged man said, carefully cleaning the table with a damp cloth. He put the cloth in a little pouch, sat down beside him. “But look, this table’s clean.”
He agreed that the table was clean.
— Use of Weapons by Iain M. Banks (Culture, #3)
Sam finished reading The Serviceberry by Robin Wall Kimmerer
The Serviceberry by Robin Wall Kimmerer
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Braiding Sweetgrass, a bold and inspiring vision for how to orient …
Sam started reading I am not Spock by Leonard Nimoy
Sam started reading The Serviceberry by Robin Wall Kimmerer
The Serviceberry by Robin Wall Kimmerer
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Braiding Sweetgrass, a bold and inspiring vision for how to orient …
Sam finished reading The Player of Games by Iain M. Banks (Culture, #2)
The Player of Games by Iain M. Banks (Culture, #2)
When Jernau Morat Gurgeh, a skilled board game player begins to experience ennui and asks a friend for help, he …
Sam finished reading Consider Phlebas by Iain M. Banks (Culture, #1)
Consider Phlebas by Iain M. Banks (Culture, #1)
Consider Phlebas is perhaps one of the lesser-known, but nevertheless the first, of the revelationary late Iain M. Banks' science …
