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The Algebraist

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The Algebraist

Von: Iain M. Banks
Gesprochen von: Anton Lesser
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 The novels of Iain M. Banks have forever changed the face of modern science fiction. With breathtaking imagination and extraordinary storytelling, they have secured his reputation as one of the most extraordinary and influential writers in the genre.

'Banks is a phenomenon' William Gibson

It is 4034 AD. Humanity has made it to the stars but Fassin Taak, a Slow Seer at the Court of the Nasqueron Dwellers, will be fortunate if he makes it to the end of the year.

The Nasqueron Dwellers inhabit a gas giant on the outskirts of the galaxy, in a system awaiting its wormhole connection to the rest of civilisation. In the meantime, they are dismissed as decadents living in a state of highly developed barbarism, hoarding data without order, hunting their own young and fighting pointless formal wars.

Abruptly seconded to a military-religious order he's barely heard of - part of the baroque hierarchy of the Mercatoria, the latest galactic hegemony - Fassin Taak has to travel again amongst the Dwellers. He is in search of a secret hidden for half a billion years.

But with each day that passes a war draws closer - a war that threatens to overwhelm everything and everyone he's ever known.

Praise for the novels of Iain M. Banks:

'Epic in scope, ambitious in its ideas and absorbing in its execution' Independent on Sunday

'Banks has created one of the most enduring and endearing visions of the future' Guardian

'Jam-packed with extraordinary invention' Scotsman

'Compulsive reading' Sunday Telegraph

Books by Iain M. Banks:
Consider Phlebas
The Player of Games
Use of Weapons
Excession
Inversions
Look to Windward
Matter
Surface Detail
The Hydrogen Sonata
The State of the Art
Against a Dark Background
Feersum Endjinn
The Algebraist

Also now available:
The Culture: The Drawings - an extraordinary collection of original illustrations faithfully reproduced from sketchbooks Banks kept in the 1970s and 80s, depicting the ships, habitats, geography, weapons and language of Banks' Culture series of novels in incredible detail.©2004 Iain M. Banks Science Fiction

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There is now no British SF writer to whose work I look forward with greater keenness
Confirms Banks as the standard by which the rest of SF is judged
Explosive
Gripping, touching and funny
Alle Sterne
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...and after looking at the article description for a second time, I notice: It is the abridged version! I didn't expect this, because all the other Iain M. Banks audio books come in the unabridged variety. There seems to be no unabridged version of this title available (even on audible.com), which is a pity.

Is it good, nevertheless? It depends.

The reader is an unexpected one (Anton Lesser instead of Peter Kenny), which took me by surprise. He does a fairly good job, with one great exception: Giving all members of the dweller race a voice like a mumbling, droning walrus in slowmo wasn't that good a choice. Listening to dialogs involving one or more of them (and there are lots of these dialogs, as most of the story takes place on dweller planets) is a pain in the ear.

Marking the chapters by some ding dong synthesizer music has been the other bad choice, but one gets used to this.

Regarding the story itself: It definitely is not one of Banks' best, but still stands out among most of the other SF. The character and story development is a bit on the hasty side, but that in hindsight is explained by being the abridged version.

So: As long as there is no unabridged version available, it is better to list to this one than skipping the book entirely. If it becomes available at some point in the future, go for the unabridged version, which most probably would have earned 5 stars instead of 4 in the "Story" category.

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