Why is it called Consider Phlebas?
Consider Phlebas is Banks’s first published science fiction novel and takes its title from a line in T. S. Eliot’s poem The Waste Land. A subsequent Culture novel, Look to Windward (2000), whose title comes from the previous line of the same poem, can be considered a loose follow-up.
When was Consider Phlebas written?
1987
He wrote his first Culture book, Consider Phlebas, in 1987 and penned a further nine novels between then and 2012.
What is a Mind in Consider Phlebas?
Template:R According to Consider Phlebas, a Mind is an ellipsoid object roughly the size of a bus and weighing around 15,000 tons. A Mind is in fact a 4-D entity, meaning that the ellipsoid is only the protrusion of the larger four dimensional device into our 3D ‘real space’.
What comes after Phlebas?
Consider Phlebas (1987) The Player of Games (1988) Use of Weapons (1990) The State of the Art (1991)
Who wrote consider Phlebas?
Iain BanksConsider Phlebas / Author
Who is Phelbas The Phoenician?
The shortest section of the poem, “Death by Water” describes a man, Phlebas the Phoenician, who has died, apparently by drowning. In death he has forgotten his worldly cares as the creatures of the sea have picked his body apart. The narrator asks his reader to consider Phlebas and recall his or her own mortality.
Is the culture human?
While the Culture is generally pan-humanoid (and tends to call itself “human”), various other species and individuals of other species have become part of the Culture.
Is Culture series finished?
Amazon TV adaptation of Iain Banks’ Culture series is cancelled.
Which Iain M Banks book to read first?
Two: The Player of Games This makes it a good starting point for the Iain M Banks neophyte, and also the first book I recommend to non-science fiction readers curious about the genre.
Is against a dark background a Culture novel?
Against a Dark Background is a 1994 stand-alone science fiction novel by Iain M Banks, better known for his Culture novels.
Who is Phlebas in The Waste Land?
What is the theme of The Waste Land by TS Eliot?
The main theme in the poem The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot is the decline of all the old certainties that had previously held Western society together. This has caused society to break up, and there’s to be no going back. All that’s left to do is to salvage broken cultural fragments from a vanished past.