• SL3wvmnas
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    3 days ago

    I love that one of the characters in Iain Banks’ “Transition” tries to find aliens by spotting airtight -looking vessels (ships, vans,…) during solar eclipses, for this exact reason.

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        15 hours ago

        Hell yes it was weird as hell! It was also the most conceptually mind boggling (with all the gender and sexual fluidity on top of everything else). I felt from style of writing and tone it was very personal and intimate, guess thats why I liked it so much.

        The weirdest book to me was feersum endshin (sp?), but I mean, we’re reading Banks “it was the day my Grandmother exploded”, so…

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          15 hours ago

          Feersum Endjinn that took such a long time to read the phonetic bits. Loved it though. Subsequent reads were better.