Journal Entry 1 by rannie from Eatonton, Georgia USA on Sunday, August 27, 2006

Pub Wkly starred review, "A riotous space swashbuckler,
a lighthearted , lightyear's romp."Sending in a Bookrelay to Krin511. Enjoy!



 

Journal Entry 2 by krin511 from Olney, Maryland USA on Tuesday, September 12, 2006

Arrived today - thanks!

Description:

"Iain M. Banks is a true original, an author whose brilliant speculative fiction has transported us into worlds of unbounded imagination and inimitable revelatory power. Now he takes us on the ultimate trip: to the edge of possibility and to the heart of a cosmic puzzle....

Diplomat Byr Genar-Hofoen has been selected by the Culture to undertake a delicate and dangerous mission. The Department of Special Circumstances--the Culture's espionage and dirty tricks section--has sent him off to investigate a 2,500-year-old mystery: the sudden disappearance of a star fifty times older than the universe itself. But in seeking the secret of the lost sun, Byr risks losing himself.

There is only one way to break the silence of millennia: steal the soul of the long-dead starship captain who first encountered the star, and convince her to be reborn. And in accepting this mission, Byr will be swept into a vast conspiracy that could lead the universe into an age of peace...or to the brink of annihilation." 

Journal Entry 3 by krin511 at Olney, Maryland USA on Thursday, March 31, 2011

I liked this book, but I think I would have liked it more if I had read the earlier books in the series first. I found myself wondering what was going on and who the characters were, and it wasn't until I was halfway through when I realized that it was part of a series. I look forward to reading the earlier books starting with Consider Phlebas.