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u/MrCompassion · 129 pointsr/books

Use of Weapons and, everything else by Iain M. Banks. Amazing stuff. Trust me.

The Blade Itself and the rest of that series by Joe Abercrombie.

Altered Carbon and the rest of that series as well as Thirteen and The Steel Remains, and it's sequel (still waiting on book 3) by Richard K. Morgan. He's pretty amazing.

That would keep you busy for a long time and are all pretty amazing. Seconding Dune, which is amazing, and the Name of the Wind which is great but very popcorn.

But really, if you were to read everything by Iain M. Banks you would be a better person.

Edit: The Sparrow

u/Cdresden · 11 pointsr/suggestmeabook

Use of Weapons by Iain Banks.

Fingersmith by Sarah Waters.

Tigerman by Nick Harkaway.

An Instance of the Fingerpost by Iain Pears.

Wool by Hugh Howey.

u/ViinDiesel · 7 pointsr/suggestmeabook

The Culture books by Iain M Banks.
Many books, various points in time in the "history" of The Culture.
Warning: sci-fi

Some of the best writing ever.

u/Adahn5 · 6 pointsr/socialism

Consider Phlebas, The Player of Games, and Use of Weapons

These three were written by Iain M. Banks and they're all sci-fi novels set in a far off future Earth where we live in a post-scarcity, stateless, classless, communist paradise. Banks uses the alien societies we encounter in the future as a means of criticing our actual, modern society today.

I absolutely love those novels. The Culture (what we now call the united humans of earth + their colonies) is fascinating. I won't spoil it for you. But go for it. Read until your eyes bleed.

Also, if you're looking for something fun and innocent. You can't go wrong with The Smurfs. I shit you not, I grew up on these so don't any of you dare insult them >.>

You'll want the comics, of course, not the cartoons.

u/gabwyn · 4 pointsr/printSF

Transition and Inversions were the only 2 novels I rated as low as 3 stars in goodreads.

I would say it's one of his weakest novels.

I'd recommend the Culture novels instead; maybe try The Player of Games or Use of Weapons as an introduction.

u/Kronephon · 3 pointsr/portugal

Nerd shit coming your way:

The Foundation, by Isaac Asimov

: De longe o meu favorito, recomenda-se vivamente, e se fores fã de macroeconomia... well a premisa do livro baseia se na certeza da previsibilidade de comportamento humano para populações suficientemente grandes.
"The books tell the story of the Foundation, an institute to preserve the best of human civilization after the millenial long collapse of the galactic empire".

https://www.amazon.com/Foundation-Isaac-Asimov/dp/0553293354

Use of Weapons, by Ian M Banks : Livro um pouco sobre as consequencias sociais e politicas de uma sociedade utopica com uma economia pós-escassez.

https://www.amazon.com/Use-Weapons-Culture-Iain-Banks/dp/0316030570

The Eye of the World, by Robert Jordan

https://www.amazon.com/Eye-World-Wheel-Time-Book/dp/0812511816

u/oatmealicus · 2 pointsr/scifi

Try out the Culture books by Iain M. Banks. Use of Weapons is my personal favorite and more militaristic than the others (which are still amazing scifi!).

u/dwodhghemonhswes · 2 pointsr/ChronicPain

Great series of books. You do not need to read them in order; I read book 4 first, and it spoils nothing.

Supposedly, Amazon Prime wants to do a miniseries of this, or at least the first book, to the level of quality of Game of Thrones. I'll... believe it when I see it.

Anyway here are Amazon/Audible links! (Or hit up your local library, etc.)

  1. Consider Phlebas paperback / Audible

  2. The Player of Games paperback / Audible

  3. Use of Weapons paperback / Audible

  4. The State of the Art (collection of short stories) paperback / Audible

  5. Excession (I read this one first, it's great) paperback / Audible

  6. Inversions (sort-of a Culture book) paperback / Audible

  7. Look to Windward paperback / Audible

  8. Matter paperback / Audible

  9. Surface Detail paperback / Audible

  10. The Hydrogen Sonata (my favorite - Vyr Cossont is my hero) paperback / Audible

    I really like this stuff as space opera type stuff. It's usually not "hard" sci-fi like Asimov or even Philip K. Dick or anything, but I rather hope humanity heads in the direction of the Federation, and then ultimately to The Culture.

    Fun fact!! Elon Musk named the autonomous drone barge ships (the ones that SpaceX rockets land on) after some Culture ships. Namely the Of Course I Still Love You, and the Just Read The Instructions. I also rather like the full name of the ship Mistake Not… (Don't Google it! It's a spoiler!!!)
u/[deleted] · 2 pointsr/Bitcoin

Use of Weapons by Iain M. Banks

u/omaca · 2 pointsr/books

The Culture books of Iain M Banks.

Use of Weapons is often considered one of the best.
I quite like the first Consider Phleabas. Player of Games is pretty popular with the reddit crew.

A list of the novels can be found here. Wonderful.

u/Minkben · 1 pointr/Futurology

If I understand correctly, you're implying there won't be fantastic new MMO games? And implying that in /r/futurology? ;)

I'm not saying I'll be an MMORPG either, hence the MMO (short for Massively Multiplayer Online).

Let me share a vision of an extremely immersive mmo game, from the book Use of Weapons by Iain M Banks:

> The first night away, he linked into one of their direct-link sensory entertainments, lying on the bed with some sort of device activated under the pillow.

>He did not actually sleep that night; instead he was a bold pirate prince who’d renounced his nobility to lead a brave crew against the slaver ships of a terrible empire amongst the spice and treasure isles; their quick little ships darted amongst the lumbering galleons, picking away the rigging with chain shot. They came ashore on moonless nights, attacking the great prison castles, releasing joyous captives; he personally fought the wicked governor’s chief torturer, sword against sword; the man finally fell from a high tower. An alliance with a beautiful lady pirate begot a more personal liaison, and a daring rescue from a mountain monastery when she was captured . . .

>He pulled away from it, after what had been weeks of compressed time. He knew (somewhere at the back of his mind) even as it happened that none of it was real, but that seemed like the least important property of the adventure. When he came out of it — surprised to discover that he had not actually ejaculated during some of the profoundly convincing erotic episodes — he discovered that only a night had passed, and it was morning, and he had somehow shared the strange story with others; it had been a match, apparently. People had left messages for him to get in touch, they had enjoyed playing the match with him so much. He felt oddly ashamed and did not reply.

u/wolfchimneyrock · 1 pointr/AskReddit

you should read the culture series of novels by Ian Banks ...

u/darthbob88 · 1 pointr/booksuggestions

Use of Weapons, by Iain M Banks.

E: Dunno how to recommend it and its plot twist without spoiling said twist, but I'll try. It's two stories, told simultaneously and in reverse chronological order; in the one, mercenary Cheradenine Zakalwe is pulled out of retirement by the Culture to do one more job for them, and demands/is offered as payment a chance to see his sister one more time before she dies, while in the other we see his past and what made him the man he is today, including a civil war in which (medium-small and gorey twist) [spoiler:](#s "his adopted brother butchered his sister and turned her into a chair"). Really good, super shocking, strongly recommend.

E2: That spoiler, BTW, is not The Twist, that comes a bit later.