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Feersum Endjinn [Paperback]

Iain M. Banks (Author)
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Book Description

Publication Date: 8 Jun 1995

Count Sessine is about to die for the very last time ...

Chief Scientist Gadfium is about to receive the mysterious message she has been waiting for from the Plain of Sliding Stones ...

And Bascule the Teller, in search of an ant, is about to enter the chaos of the crypt ...

And everything is about to change ...

For this is the time of the encroachment and, although the dimming sun still shines on the vast, towering walls of Serehfa Fastness, the end is close at hand. The King knows it, his closest advisers know it, yet sill they prosecute the war against the clan Engineers with increasing savagery.

The crypt knows it too; so an emissary has been sent, an emissary who holds the key to all their futures.

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  • Paperback: 288 pages
  • Publisher: Orbit; New Ed edition (8 Jun 1995)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1857232739
  • ISBN-13: 978-1857232738
  • Product Dimensions: 12.9 x 2.3 x 19.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (60 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 92,661 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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In a future where the ancients have long since departed Earth for the stars, those left behind live complacent lives filled with technological marvels they no longer understand. Then a cosmic threat known as the Encroachment begins a devastating ice age on Earth, and it sets in motion a series of events that will bring together a cast of original characters who must struggle through war, political intrigues and age-old mysteries to save the world. (B 4worned, 1 oph Banx' carrokters theenx en funetic inglish, which makes for some tough reading but also some innovative prose.)

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Another truly impressive piece of work from the pen of a master storyteller. (STARBURST )

Dazzlingly original. (DAILY MAIL )

Banks is a phenomenon: the widly successful, fearlessly creative author of brilliant and disturbing non-genre novels, he's equally at home writing pure science fiction of a peculiarly gnarly energy and elegance. (WILLIAM GIBSON )

Sharp, witty, comprehensively terrifying. (OBSERVER )
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36 of 38 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars ... Indistinguishable from magic 23 Mar 2004
By Dr Frazer Anderson
Format:Paperback
In Arthur C. Clarke's famous saying, any sufficiently advanced technology is...

This book tells a tale of a time when the Earth is populated by descendants of those people who were (or chose to be) left behind when technology reached a point which they could no longer cope with. As a result they live in a world which they barely understand, surrounded by the legacy of people using a science way beyond them. Nonetheless, humans being adaptable creatures, they have created a society which just about functions, using the technology they were left, packed with all the usual human virtues and vices, lacking only the faintest idea of why they are where they are. It is only when they discover that their civilisation - and indeed planet - is threatened by something far beyond their abilities that they have to come to terms with what they have lost. Characteristically, they respond in different ways, most of them counterproductive.

The book is told from four viewpoints: a power struggle within the ruling clan, a loser in that power struggle, a boy caught up in the struggle without realising it and a mysterious external factor called an "asura" who despite her initial air of harmlessness is clearly going to be bad news for someone.

Initially the book is hard to get to grips with as these four strands interweave, particularly as the boy speaks/writes a phonetic English which takes hard work and practice to read at a reasonably normal pace. However, as the story starts to gel, the characters and plotting slowly become irresistible and by the end the reader has a real feeling of satisfaction for sticking with it.

This is not as easy to read as some of the Culture novels but in its own way it is every bit as rewarding as, say, The Player Of Games.

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars feers, as thi yung peepil sa 5 April 2012
By S. G. Gilman
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I ½ olwayz luvd eeyun em banxiz cyance fikshun, its bettir than moast ov hiz uthir just eeyun banks bewks, but feersum endjinn iz 1 of thi best evir sints u ½ 2 wirk HARD 2 get wots goin on, c? thass betir than sitin frew 2 hrs ov sum daft film fool ov noyzy xplowzhns laik trans4merz or termin8r rite?

An if u bags (hehe) owt thir r reely havin probs wif thi fownetickly ritn stuf wel i fownd it helps u if u reed it owt lowd in a scotish akzent.
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic but difficult book 18 Jan 2006
By L. Davidson VINE™ VOICE
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The world of "Feersum Endjinn" is incredibly weird. Set in the very far future, the Encroachment threatens the Earth with a new Ice Age and the possible extinction of life on the planet itself. Only the remnants of a civilisation are left on Earth ,with most of the rest of its inhabitants having long since departed for the stars. The society that is left is totally bizarre; it is organised on feudal lines and most of the people live in a huge castle the size and height of a large mountain range. The inhabitants have developed very strange and alien powers of the mind; they possess implants to provide them with AI and their minds are "shared" in a hierarchical manner , with "The Privileged" being able to access people minds at will.In parallel with the real world, there is a surreal virtual reality world called "The Crypt" which people can access through their mind ; a sort of world data bank that contains all the thoughts and actions of the past , a world into which people can even download their souls for reincarnation after death, often returning as chimerical animals. It is the complex interaction between the real world and The Crypt which makes this book a difficult one to understand and enjoy. Banks makes a lot of demands on the reader as he creates this convincing but radically different future world. A world where Life and the Afterlife , the Spirit and the Material World ,have fused together and created a totally new reality.
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Published 24 days ago by john
4.0 out of 5 stars Banks at his most imaginative
Once I started this I just had to keep reading to find out what was going on. Complicated, tremendously detailed, fascinating.
Published 2 months ago by Peter J
5.0 out of 5 stars This is one tremendous and wonderful book/ story/ experience
This is one tremendous and wonderful book/ story/ experience. It will entertain from start to finish - if you love sci fi you HAVE to read this.
Published 4 months ago by Shad
4.0 out of 5 stars Re-write full english please
Txt Speak before txt speak very annoying but a book I eventually enjoyed a re-write in full english would be better though.
Published 5 months ago by A. S. Fraser
5.0 out of 5 stars Great read from a great author
This was the first Iain M Banks book I read when I was in my teens (quite a while back) and it still shines out over all the other IMB books since for me! Read more
Published 6 months ago by G Peterson
4.0 out of 5 stars Rewarding, but utterly baffling
This is a book that must be approached with a little reverance, partly for what it achieves, and partly because of the difficult journey in getting there. Read more
Published 11 months ago by Dan Crawford
4.0 out of 5 stars Make up Your Own Mind
Like another reviewer, after colliding head on with the first Bascule chapter I had a sneaky peek to see how much more there was and almost gave up.

But, stick with it. Read more
Published 18 months ago by Azrael
2.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing.
There is a good book in here somewhere but it is spoiled along the way.

The main problem is the character of Bascule, his sections are written in a deliberately... Read more
Published 22 months ago by plot hound
3.0 out of 5 stars Good but by no means his best
The story was fairly interesting. I don't know if this is the first book to be set in this world but there are some aspects of the world which I thought deserved an explanation... Read more
Published on 31 Jan 2011 by T. J. Smith
4.0 out of 5 stars Not the quickest book you will ever read but worthwhile
Just a quick review from myself, the phonetic parts of the book can be difficult, and certainly slow, to read but when the strands of the story come together the time you have... Read more
Published on 12 Nov 2010 by Mr. D. M. Johnston
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