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	Iain M. Banks' Culture references in Bungie's Halo
		In March 2000 an interesting post describing similarities between the Idrians in "Consider Phlebas" and the Covenant in Halo appeared on the halo.bungie.org forums.
		Consider Phlebas, in fact most of Banks sci-fi books, deal with truuly alien cultures vs. the CULTURE (which for all intense purposes can be considered humanity).
		A ghastly light is awaited in the sky from distant suns detonated in the war of Consider Phlebas eight centuries earlier; an occasion for sombre festivity, pyrotechnics, and a memorial symphony from exiled alien composer Ziller.
	marathon.bungie.org /story/halo_culture.html (3378 words)

	Excessive Candour
		Consider Phlebas, who was once handsome and tall as you.
		Though it mirrors and repeats Consider Phlebas in a number of ways, Look to Windward is in fact all about history not repeating itself.
		He is Phlebas, but nobody seems to have been considering him.
	www.scifi.com /sfw/issue193/excess.html (912 words)

	A Wasteland for the Human and Divine
		Consider Phlebas, who was once handsome and tall as you.
		For example, consider that Phlebas is the representation of Christ in the Death by Water.
		Consider means to "think about carefully with regard to taking action, deliberation." We are to consider Phlebas, "who was once as handsome and tall as you." Because Phlebas is Christ, his death should prompt us to consider the gift of salvation and what that will mean for each of us in our own personal wastelands.
	titan.iwu.edu /~wchapman/americanpoetryweb/eliwasan.html (1696 words)

	Consider Phlebas Information
		Consider Phlebas is a science fiction novel by Scottish writer Iain M. Banks, first published in 1987.
		Consider Phlebas is Banks' first science fiction novel set in the Culture, and takes its title from a line in T.
		Consider Phlebas is the first novel in which sublimation appears.
	www.bookrags.com /wiki/Consider_Phlebas (611 words)

	Christopher Palmer- Galactic Empires and the Contemporary Extravaganza: Dan Simmons and Iain M. Banks
		In Banks, the main character usually makes his or her way through scenes of merciless violence which have the wide scope of high-tech warfare but the viciousness of low-tech combat, and is at least adept at, if not seriously devoted to, competition and conflict.
		In Consider Phlebas it is a member of a species called Changers whose unusual mimetic capacities were first developed for military purposes; in The Player of Games, a ruthless game player; in Use of Weapons, a kind of mercenary.
		Consider Phlebas, The Player of Games, and Use of Weapons all tell a conventional space-opera story of violence and adventure—a story that is not less conventional, in the terms of the genre, for being of baroque complexity and busyness.
	www.depauw.edu /sfs/backissues/77/palmer77.htm (8580 words)

	Show review for Consider Phlebas
		Consider Phlebas is the story of part of the war between a race of humanoids called The Culture, and a race of three-legged immortal warriors called the Idirans.
		Consider Phlebas focuses on a lost Culture “Mind” (a super-powerful sentient computer), which fled in a partially-constructed spaceship from a Culture War Factory that was under attack.
		Consider Phlebas is very much a thriller, and a page-turner, egging the reader on further and further through the story.
	www.giles-guthrie.com /reviews/showreview.php?id=80&cat=title (592 words)

	Consider Phlebas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		One of the questions that novice writers are told to ask is, "What's the worst thing that could possibly happen to your main character?" Banks has obviously asked this question, and he answers it on the first page of Chapter One.
		Consider Phlebas opens with the protagonist suspended in a rapidly filling tank of ordure.
		Consider Phlebas introduces the Culture in some detail, but the passages describing various aspects of it seem largely irrelevant to the plot.
	www.willowcom.org.uk /revup/books/consider.htm (349 words)

	Consider Phlebas Review
		Consider Phlebas was the first Culture novel to be published, so I judged it a good starting point.
		Consider Phlebas is a story of the war between the Culture and a religiously fanatic alien species, the Idirans.
		I found Consider Phlebas to be a worthwhile novel, well-written, exciting, and often (as seems characteristic of Banks) flly funny.
	www.sff.net /people/richard.horton/phlebas.htm (781 words)

	Consider Phlebas by Iain M. Banks from Foyles Bookshop, London.
		Consider Phlebas by Iain M. Banks from Foyles Bookshop, London.
		It was the fate of Horza, the Changer, and his motley crew of unpredictable mercenaries, human and machine, actually to find it, and with it their own destruction.
		If you liked Consider Phlebas, the titles below are the StoryCode recommendations for it based on matches with its genre, characterisation, plot, setting and atmosphere.
	www.foyles.co.uk /foyles/display.asp?ISB=1857231384&TAG=&CID= (281 words)

	Consider Phlebas (Iain Banks) - book review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Consider Phlebas is the first of Iain M. Banks' Culture novels.
		Among other adventures, Horza's journey involves him in battles with a mercenary band, an encounter with cannibalism, and participation in a high-stakes game of Damage on an Orbital about to be destroyed, before a final confrontation in the tunnels of Schar's World.
		The plot of Consider Phlebas sprawls in sometimes disconnected fashion and it is not the best of the Culture novels.
	dannyreviews.com /h/Consider_Phlebas.html (170 words)

	SF REVIEWS.NET: Consider Phlebas / Iain M. Banks
		Consider Phlebas is so many things: breathlessly exciting space opera, yet starring a morally ambiguous antihero; a story which both embraces and rejects the romanticism of space adventure; a story which unsettles as often as it thrills.
		It may be all a bit much for some readers, but you can't deny there is some formidable creative energy at work here.
		Banks has written several Culture novels, each of which can be read as a self-contained story; Consider Phlebas is commonly considered one of the best, as well as a good one for new readers to start the series with.
	www.sfreviews.net /phlebas.html (789 words)

	Review of Iain M. Banks' Consider Phlebas
		Consider Phlebas is Banks' first science fiction novel, and he makes quite a splash.
		Consider Phlebas is an excellent book, one of the best of its type that I have ever read, but it certainly has its own share of flaws.
		The main character, Horza, is a Changer, who takes the side of the Idirans in their colossal war against the Culture.
	www.challengingdestiny.com /reviews/phlebas.htm (882 words)

	Article: Culture Clash: Ambivalent Heroes and the Ambiguous Utopia in the Work of Iain M. Banks, by David Horwich
		Banks' Culture stories -- Consider Phlebas, The Player of Games, Use of Weapons, The State of the Art, Excession, and Look to Windward -- are set in different periods of Culture history, covering (so far) about an 800-year span of the Culture's millennia-long existence.
		Consider Phlebas was Banks' first published Culture novel and is set earliest in Culture history.
		In Consider Phlebas, Perosteck Balveda has her mind-state recorded in long-term storage for later revival; after her revival, she lives only a few months more before choosing to autoeuthenize.
	www.strangehorizons.com /2002/20020121/culture_clash.shtml (3385 words)

	Special Circumstances: Look to Windward by Iain M. Banks
		Gentile or Jew O you who turn the wheel and look to windward, Consider Phlebas, who was once handsome and tall as you.
		The plot here concerns the aftermath of the Culture's conflict with the Idirans that was the plot in "Consider Phlebas".
		The Chelgrians don't like the Culture, for the same reasons that the protagonist of "Consider Phlebas" did not like them: for their arrogance in presuming to know what was right.
	www.cs.sfu.ca /~anoop/weblog/archives/000187.html (593 words)

	Consider Phlebas (Iain Banks) - book review
		Consider Phlebas is the first of Iain M. Banks' Culture novels.
		It is space opera on the grand scale, set in the middle of an immense war between the Culture and the Idirans, but its plot revolves around a personal story.
		The plot of Consider Phlebas sprawls in sometimes disconnected fashion and it is not the best of the Culture novels.
	www.dannyreviews.com /h/Consider_Phlebas.html (170 words)

	Iain Banks' Culture novels
		Consider Phlebas was Banks' first Culture novel, and it shows quite well.
		Add into the equation a Culture Special Circumstances Operative, Perosteck Balveda, who eventually meets up with Horza for the second time at the end of the novel, and a conclusion that is nothing short of enthralling, and you have a novel worth reading.
		The last story in the collection, Scratch (or: The Present and Future of Species HS (sic) Considered as The Contents of a Contemporary Popular Record (qv).), is a morbid look at the self-destructive and ultimately depressing nature of humans.
	www.vavatch.co.uk /books/banks (2373 words)

	Consider Phlebas (Iain Banks) - book review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Consider Phlebas is the first of Iain M. Banks' Culture novels.
		Among other adventures, Horza's journey involves him in battles with a mercenary band, an encounter with cannibalism, and participation in a high-stakes game of Damage on an Orbital about to be destroyed, before a final confrontation in the tunnels of Schar's World.
		The plot of Consider Phlebas sprawls in sometimes disconnected fashion and it is not the best of the Culture novels.
	www.anatomy.usyd.edu.au /danny/book-reviews/h/Consider_Phlebas.html (170 words)

	Consider Phlebas - Definition, explanation
		Consider Phlebas (ISBN 1857231384) is a novel by Iain M. Banks first published in 1987.
		It is Banks' first science fiction novel, set in the Culture universe, and takes its title from a line in T.
		Look to Windward, whose title comes from the same poem, can be considered a loose follow-up.
	www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/c/co/consider_phlebas.php (256 words)

	inkling_review: Banks, Iain M.: Consider Phlebas
		Consider Phlebas is the first of the Culture novels.
		Consider Phlebas follows Horza, a changer, who is employed by the Idirians in the war against the Culture, to capture one of the Culture's Minds from Schar's World, a Planet of the Dead.
		And while Consider Phlebas focussed more on the various worlds the Culture was trying to destroy, I look forward to reading more in these Culture novels.
	inkling-review.livejournal.com /621.html (529 words)

	Consider Phlebas: June 2005
		Graeme Hick, to think of another, potentially equally destructive player, for whom England were also desperately waiting to qualify, after all, has a slighly higher first class average, has routinely destroyed county attacks, yet never quite made it as an international batsman, despite clear class.
		Ramprakash might also be considered, a player not quite as attacking as either Pietersen or Hick, or with first class figures quite as impressive, but one who certainly appeared like he would make it at international level from his first class performances.
		Truth then becomes, effectively, rather than a property of statements considered in isolation, a property of statements as part of system of belief: in the case of the law of excluded middle, it is because, in light of everything else we believe, it makes sense that is is true.
	considerphlebas.blogspot.com /2005_06_01_archive.html (9103 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Consider Phlebas (The Culture): Books: Iain M. Banks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Consider Phlebas - a space opera of stunning power and awesome imagination.
		Consider Phlebas is an intricately woven novel, set against a sci-fi backdrop.
		Although the sci- part sometimes gets a bit too intricate for its own good, the main characters are well-developed to have a depth of personality allowing the reader to like, dislike, be ambivalent about and empathise with them.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Consider-Phlebas-Culture-Iain-Banks/dp/1857231384 (1323 words)

	Amazon.com: Consider Phlebas: Books: Iain M. Banks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		His "Culture" novels fall under the SF category, and "Consider Phlebas" is generally considered the best starting point.
		The setting for this novel is the galaxy-wide war between the technology-driven Culture and the religious Idirans.
		"Consider Phlebas" is a very exciting novel, filled with aliens, immense space-ships, Orbitals,...
	www.amazon.com /Consider-Phlebas-Iain-M-Banks/dp/1857231384 (1645 words)

	The SF Site Featured Review: Look To Windward
		Consider Phlebas and its immediate successors -- The Player of Games (1988), The State of the Art (1989), and Use of Weapons (1990) -- offered ambiguous answers, asserting both the necessity of the Culture's existence and the occasional iniquity of its methods.
		In any event, it is one of Banks' finest novels, mature, considered, horrifying and hilarious by turns.
		Its episodes of social comedy are brilliantly observed, like Wodehouse on interstellar overdrive; its sequences of action and intrigue are as intense and polished as those in the magnificent Inversions; and its conclusion is perfectly paced, a keen indictment and sweeping celebration of the Culture all at once.
	www.sfsite.com /11b/lw93.htm (1022 words)

	Iain Banks
		His science fiction writing includes the novels Consider Phlebas (1987), The Player of Games (1988), The Use of Weapons (1990), Against a Dark Background (1993), Feersum Endjinn (1994), Excession (1996) and Look to Windward (2000), as well as The State of the Art (1989), a novella and collected short stories.
		However Banks is not the kind of writer who would deem such an idealised world the stuff of engaging fiction and therefore this futuristic ‘utopia of affluence’ is not without its problems nor a certain ruthless intent to pursue its own course.
		This is all the more laudable when you consider that is almost customary for science fiction writers, such as Banks’ friend Ken McCleod, to create dystopian futurescapes.
	www.contemporarywriters.com /authors/?p=auth12 (1819 words)

	Geek Culture - Consider Phlebas
		Jeg fik dengang at vide - af Casper, vores lokale Banks-tilbeder - at jeg nok havde startet med den forkerte Banks-bog, hvorefter han lånte mig Consider Phlebas.
		Consider Phlebas byder - når man ser den fra oven - på et ekstremt velgennemtænkt univers, og det er en fryd at læse om de forskellige racer, deres teknologier og deres objektiver.
		Jeg har tidligere udtalt, at Englændere ikke kan skrive seriøs science fiction, og Consider Phlebas har ikke gjort noget for at ændre min holdning.
	www.geekculture.dk /arkiv.php3?reviewid=1150 (660 words)

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