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SURFACE DETAILS by Iain M. Banks

Iain Banks’ novel, SURFACE DETAIL, is his latest in the continuing series about the super civilization of the future, the Culture. It is about the lives of a number of distinct individuals whose stories come together to enrich the basic concepts. This is a story centered on a virtual battle between those who want to stop the construction of Hells because of their belief that it is uncivilized to engender perpetual torment and those who want to continue the practice based on the idea that Hell is required to keep people from doing bad things. The Hells are virtual worlds and the war is required to be virtual. The side favoring Hell is winning. The group on the losing side is now taking the battle outside of the virtual into the real, breaking the Culture’s eons-old premise that war must be fought in the virtual world.

June 6, 2011 · Judi Clark · No Comments
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