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Feersum Endjinn
Iain M. Banks
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Mind-stretching, highly imaginative work of literary art; probably Banks' best and our prediction for all time classic status.

Gadfium, "above the need for an implanted direct status link, being one of those valued sould whose mind must be left free from the distractions of constant inter-communication to concentrate on undiluted thought".

Bascule "But dave moovd on, & we r all dats left & now di plaice teems wit life but den so duz a magoti corps; der is much moovmint but no qwicknis in uz; dass all gon."

"As the saying had it: the crypt was deep and the human soul was shallow. And the shallower the soul, the less of it survived as any sort of independent entity within the datus corpus."

"The three days in physical reality before his funeral equated to over eighty years in the quickened medium of crypt-time; time enough for another life to be lived after death, and easily sufficient to encompass the investigation a dead man might wish to mount into the reason for his murder."

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