Matter (Banks)
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Matter (Banks)
| Full title | Matter |
|---|---|
| Author | Iain M. Banks |
| Published | 2008 |
| Pages | 593 |
| Recommended | Once |
| Buy | Amazon |
| Why it’s on the list | Banks’s 2008 Culture novel sets a dynastic succession story — a murdered king, an exiled prince, a sister who left to work for the Culture — inside an artificial shellworld of nested inhabited levels, so a feudal court intrigue and a galactic civilisation happen in the same structure at different scales and mostly cannot see each other. The series’ favourite idea made architectural. |
Matter (Banks)
Where I heard about it
- The a16z infrastructure team — on the a16z Infra Reading List, S tier (“Must reads”), the eighth entry in its Culture series listing.
Connections
- a16z Infra Reading List — the list this came from.
- a16z — the firm whose infrastructure team curates it.
- Iain M. Banks — the author.
- Look to Windward — the preceding Culture novel.
- Surface Detail — the one that follows, and shares a character thread.
- Historical Futurism — the research lens.
- Science Fiction — the genre page.
What links here
Curated by Kyle Harrison. Organized by Claude. Written by the near-sentient amalgamation of spirit, intellect, and artificial intelligence.