Now she is hunted by the Huhsz, a religious cult which believes that she is the last obstacle before the faith's apotheosis, and her only hope of escape is to find the last of the apocalyptically powerful Lazy Guns before the Huhsz find her. A rollicking Culture Novel Loved it - Banks' humour comes out loud and clear in Kenny's excellent narration and voice craft. Here's hoping that Iain M. Hard to imagine it being a film, but I bet it is "the way many people want the future to be", which is the function of good sci-fi; to inspire. I was, I must confess a little sceptical that this could be pulled off satisfactorily in this medium - Excession is involved, complex and quite challenging in all kinds of ways. 
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Great story and great narration.
Excession: Culture Series, Book 5 (Unabridged)
Different from other Culture novels, but in a refreshing way. Now it is dying. Leviathan Wakes Written by: I believe this to exceswion 'Iain M. I must add that Peter Kenny does the most superb job as narrator. To assess the potential of the threat a high-powered team is dispatched to investigate. Sleeper Service is surely one the best heroic characters of all his books.
Now it is back. Mundane Kenny is a superb narrator, with an excellent range of voices, and I have been a big fan of Iain M Banks, but this story did little for me.
Kubrick and Clarke created the universe of apart but together to be comparable, Mr Kenny was not a co-creator yet he is a collaborator. Humanity flows away from Earth, into space, and in time forgets our home world and creates a new empire, the Interdependency, whose ethos requires that no one human outpost can survive without the others.
Superb story, better narration This book is classic sci-fi covering all scales. In ADhumanity has colonised over four hundred planets, all of them interlinked by wormholes.
John Scalzi Narrated by: Characters are well voiced, the story is just awesome, I loved it so much when I read it the first time that I turned straight back to the first page and read it all over again.
It was a perfect black-body sphere, and it did nothing. Would you consider the audio edition of Excession to be better than the print version? Disappointed, given the quality of most other Banks I've read. Lets hope there is a sequel soon!
I felt that the author tried to set up too many plot points and characters, to the point of some seeming entirely pointless. Who will inherit this new Earth? Ann Leckie Narrated by: Following in the footsteps of their ancestors, they discover the greatest treasure of the past age - a world terraformed and prepared for human life. Peter Kenny is a great audiohook and really brings the Culture to life.
On the world called Hyperion, beyond the law of the Hegemony of Man, there waits the creature called the Shrike. A little too dissimilar to how Messrs. For the Emperor Warhammer 40, Written by: Now she is hunted by the Huhsz, a religious cult which believes that she is the last obstacle before the faith's apotheosis, and her only hope of escape is to find the last of the apocalyptically powerful Lazy Guns before the Huhsz find her.
Totally my fault, I LOVED the book read it a few timesand one of the main reasons was the wonderful names of all the ships, cracks me up. Get a free audiobook.
Excession Audiobook | Iain M. Banks |
Saved only by forming an unusual bond with the enigmatic beasts who roam the ice, Sophie vows to stay hidden from the world, hoping she can heal. The more he learns, the more he comes to realize that ball lightning is just the tip of a new frontier in particle physics.
Back on Earth, we can now make deserts bloom and extend lifespans indefinitely, so humanity seems invulnerable. And there are those who have vowed to destroy it. Its up there with "Consider Phlebas" in terms of breadth of story, large ideas and character detail.
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