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Originally Posted by fantasyfan
Banks said that he would really like to "go out" with a science fiction novel. It did happen that way--in a sense--because while The Quarry is the last book he completed in time for publication--The Hydrogen Sonata was the last book he actually lived to see published and launched.
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I remember a friend of mine who read this said that he thought
The Hydrogen Sonata was the pinnacle of this Banks' career, so it was possibly a very fitting last novel to have published. I can't vouch for the statement having only read about 5 culture books so far but I haven't been disappointed yet.
I too prefer to read in order - as arbitrary as that is in the case of culture novels. That's why I didn't vote for
Surface Detail as much as I want to eventually read it.