This is the fifth book in the Culture series by Iain M Banks, and the fourth proper novel. There’s a novella tucked in there that is interesting but not really a full story. This once still has the classic touches of humor, wildness, hilarious naming conventions. The novels are generally a mix of Ursula Le Guin’s Hainish books (by which I mean he pretty much rips her off in a number of ways) and a very very very toned down Terry Pratchett or Douglas Adams. […]
A little more than one hundred days into the fortieth year of her confinement, Dajeil Gelian was visited in her lonely tower overlooking the sea by an avatar of the great ship that was her home.
Excession by Iain M Banks
