What I’m Reading: Consider Phlebas

Cover art for Consider Phlebas

The last book on my 2014 summer reading list, and the one I didn’t get to finish. Consider Phlebas is the first novel in Banks’ Culture series of novels. It’s a morally ambiguous space opera in which its namesake civilization — the Culture — is a post-scarcity, trans-human, machine intelligence-led empire. Daniel Landau, a CLAMP colleague at Reed College, … Read more

What I’m Reading: The Quiet War

The Quiet War is science fiction novel after the Earth has gone through the Overturn — a catastrophic climate event brought about by global warming.  A new world order, based around conservative green values, emerges and attempts to restore the planet.  Meanwhile, humanity has spread to the Moon, Mars and the outer planets. These outer colonies … Read more