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	Feersum Endjinn Review
		Feersum Endjinn, his latest book, doesn't seem to be part of this future, as it is set on Earth, although it is possible that the Earth of this book is part of the same galaxy populated by the Culture, but beneath its notice.
		The Bascule sections of the novel are told in a compressed prose, abbreviating words phonetically (like feersum endjinn for fearsome engine), also using numbers and symbols.
		This is initially difficult to follow, but I picked up on it pretty quickly, and I thought it was vital to providing Bascule an individual voice (one quite reminiscent of Holden Caulfield`s voice, I thought).
	www.sff.net /people/richard.horton/endjinn.htm (415 words)

	immediacy: Feersum Endjinn
		Feersum Endjinn is no exception, starting off with multiple viewpoints and plotlines that weave about each other before reaching a grand conclusion, similar to his earlier The Bridge, but within the style of adventure SF rather than metaphysical fantasy.
		Just because it's SF adventure, doesn't mean that it's entirely fluff--one sixth of the book is entirely in a "Riddley Walker-ish" language as seen in the title (a character "writes" phonetically), which is difficult at times to read but is surprisingly not grating.
		Feersum Endjinn has that joy of discovery that is the realm of good science fiction, wherein everything is new and different, where nothing is quite as it seems, yet everything is also very familiar.
	www.engel-cox.org /text/feersum_endjinn.html (370 words)

	Feersum Endjinn (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Feersum Endjinn Review: I've read all of Banks' SF now, and this is, without a doubt, the best.
		Feersum Endjinn Review: This is the type of unconventionally constructed novel that will split people into two camps, as you can see here in the customer reviews.
		Feersum Endjinn Review: Quite frankly, made me feel literally (boom boom) ill. The phonetic sequences are impossible to read, and I ended up skipping them.
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	Feersum Endjinn : Reviews, Prices, Deals (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The world of Feersum Endjinn is so radically wierd that this all works incredibly well.
		Any successful far future novel is going to be hard on the reader, because the world is likely to be an irrevocably different place after millenia of development.
		Claims that he has become too 'arty' since about the time that this was written are just patently untrue.
	www.smartybrain.com /shopuk/product/0553573586/Feersum_Endjinn.html (736 words)

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		Feersum Endjinn is an elegantly constructed novel, phonetic spelling aside, with a plot that spans multiple layers of base reality and cyberspace and possibly even time.
		Iain Banks is the author of several other highly regarded novels, and while Feersum Endjinn is the first I have read, as Bascule might say, "Am redy 2 reed moar."
	www.lyonsmorris.com /Morris/reviews/feersum.htm (272 words)

	Feersum Endjinn (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Feersum Endjinn is a science fiction novel by Iain M. Banks ; unlike most of his science fiction does not feature the Culture.
		One of the most notable characteristics the book is that one part in (and the title) is written in the of a character who spells phonetically (eg 1/2 2" for "I have to").
		This book is not his best, and will certainly disappoint many fans of his Culture series.
	www.freeglossary.com /Feersum_Endjinn (182 words)

	Feersum Endjinn - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Feersum Endjinn (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Feersum Endjinn - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Feersum Endjinn.
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	Christopher Palmer- Galactic Empires and the Contemporary Extravaganza: Dan Simmons and Iain M. Banks
		In addition, Feersum Endjinn is one of those novels, like Banks’s The Bridge, where vast constructions fill the world and it is hard not to read the constructions, with their multiple depths, as allegories of the psyche.
		Technology, disdained in the archaic, stalled society of the Fastness (which uses high-tech but never develops it), is the basis of the counterlife in the Crypt, with its alternate spaces, times, and ways of being a self (the parallel personality constructs).
		Relevant here, but too complex to discuss in detail, is the proliferation of waifs and street kids, usually female, in recent sf: sometimes an agent, sometimes swept along in her adventures, but usually unaffected by the kind of trauma that shapes the main characters in the novels under discussion.
	www.depauw.edu /sfs/backissues/77/palmer77.htm (8580 words)

	Feersum Endjinn by Iain M. Banks, ISBN 0553374591 And Williwaw! by Tom Bodett, ISBN 0375806873
		Feersum Endjinn by Iain M. Banks, ISBN 0553374591 And Williwaw!
		Feersum Endjinn by Iain M. Banks, ISBN 0553374591
		Ivan and September have two rules to obey while their fisherman father is delayed at sea: stay off the bay and don't hook up their video game to the radio batteries.
	www.calligraphycentral.com /endjinn.htm (291 words)

	Steven Wu's Book Reviews: Feersum Endjinn (Iain M Banks) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Feersum Endjinn deftly ties together four seemingly disparate story-lines that eventually converge in an unexpected way.
		Like Against a Dark Background, the setting of Feersum Endjinn is a joy: Banks is full of imagination, and he peppers his world with all sorts of awe-inspiring and bizarre phenomena that are always fun to encounter for the first time.
		Banks also handles the four plot-lines well; though some plot-lines are inevitably more interesting than others, each always has a little to contribute to our overall understanding of the book and its world, and the relation between the four plot-lines becomes increasingly clear near the end.
	www.scwu.com /bookreviews/h/BanksIainMFeersumEndjinn.shtml (442 words)

	Reviews on Feersum Endjinn - Iain M. Banks Look at tests, reports and read reviews: dooyoo.co.uk
		Feersum Endjinn - Iain M. Banks : U shud tri reeding a buk lyke this.
		Feersum Endjinn - Iain M. Banks : Complete it - it is worth it
		Feersum Endjinn is a gem of a book.
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	Feersum Endjinn - Bunny Bear Patrol - Last.fm (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
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	FEERSUM ENDJINN by Banks, Iain, BANKS, IAIN M. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
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		On the day the Count Sessine dies for the final time, the chief scientist to the clan Accounts/Privileges receives a summons from the office of the High Sortileger.
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	Feersum Endjinn (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Four tales concerning wildly different characters, but they will all be seen to be linked as we progress.
		In one tale a person is reborn, in another a scientist searches for a message in the sands beneath the Feersum Endjinn, in another a Count is being stalked and in the last Mr Basale will visit the Endjinn.
		This is the third and least of Bank's great SF novels, but three is at least two more than most authors produced.
	parnham.members.beeb.net /Books/Novels/feersum_endjinn.htm (227 words)

	Feersum Endjinn
		I was lucky enought to read Feersum Endjinn in September of 1995, just after it was released.
		He demonstrates his total literary mastery, however, in sekshuns writen fonetily, toled by a ok, nun to brite felo hoo seez mutch more than mosst peepul do.
		Whereas the same technique drove me bonkers in "Riddley Walker", in "Feersum Endjinn" I found myself looking forward to the phonetic sections and the point of view expressed in them.
	www.uni-protokolle.de /buecher/isbn/1857232739 (267 words)

	Feersum Endjinn - Iain M. Banks - Review - Feersum Inglish
		The 'real world' in Feersum Endjinn is centred on the Serehfa Fastness - a giant proportioned castle (rooms are several kilometres wide) that was once the Earth-site of a space elevator.
		Really, I should have guessed from the title - 'Feersum Endjinn' is, of course, 'Fearsome Engine' as Bascule would write it.
		Unfortunately, all of this characters segments are written phonetically in this way, and to say it's a tad annoying would be an understatement.
	www.dooyoo.co.uk /printed-books/feersum-endjinn-iain-m-banks/300595 (1049 words)

	ISBN: 0553374591 Feersum Endjinn By (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The State of the Art by Iain M. Banks,Les Edwards
		Just because it's SF adventure, doesn't mean that it's entirely fluff--one sixthe of the book is entirely in a"Riddley Walker-ish"language as seen in the title (a character"writes"phonetically), which is difficult at times to read but is surprisingly not grating.
		I was initially disappointed that this wasn't a"Culture"novel, having grown to love the philosophical fun of those books, but quickly discovered that there was much to love here as well.
	www.wefindcheapbooks.com /detail0553374591.html (1265 words)

	Re: Feersum Endjinn Re: Against a Dark Backround, & other Banks - Opinion, comments, quest (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Re: Feersum Endjinn Re: Against a Dark Backround, & other Banks - Opinion, comments, quest
		Bascule's speech doesn't seem, to me a West of Scotland native, to be particularly from that area (but I haven't reread _Feersum Endjinn_ recently).
		The Barbarian in _The Bridge_ is definitely a Glaswegian, from Govan I think.
	www.talkaboutabook.com /group/alt.books.iain-banks/messages/20142.html (177 words)

	BookkooB: Feersum Endjinn - Iain Banks, Iain M. Banks
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	Review of Feersum Endjinn by Iain M Banks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Review of Feersum Endjinn by Iain M Banks
		Book Review: Feersum Endjinn by Iain M Banks
		In the far future a huge dust cloud - the Encroachment - is starting to threaten life on Earth.
	www.sfbookshelf.com /review/banks-iain-m-feersum-endjinn.php (217 words)

	Feersum Endjinn by Iain M Banks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Count Sessine is about to die for the last time.
		The crypt knows it too; so an emissary has been sent, an emissary who holds the key to all their futures.
		Feersum Enjinn is an imaginative tour de force, a stunning novel of bravery and hope, fear and betrayal, strangeness and charm in the face of darkness: it is Iain M Banks at his unparalleled best.
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	LMT Tech Resource Store: Books : Feersum Endjinn (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		LMT Tech Resource Store: Books : Feersum Endjinn
		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.
		The story is in ten chapters, each of which is broken down into four points of view -- a confused foreigner, the chief scientist,...
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		Subject: [idealcopy] Feersum Endjinn Andrew W asked, > Feersum Endjinn > Not read this one.
		Subject: Re: [idealcopy] Feersum Endjinn can't say i've read banks, but the comments below sound like they could come from a description of most of phil dick's '60s oeuvre...
		Subject: Re: [idealcopy] Feersum Endjinn on 08/07/02 02:04, dan bailey at dpbailey@worldnet.att.net wrote: > can't say i've read banks, but the comments below sound like they could come > from a description of most of phil dick's '60s oeuvre...
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	Feersum Endjinn \| Bill's Outbursts
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	Feersum Endjinn - Iain M. Banks - Review - A literary gestalt switch
		Feersum Endjinn - Iain M. Banks - Review - A literary gestalt switch
		Banks' skill as a writer was brought home to me when his phonetic passages made me laugh and finding the humour was in his use of the phonetic rather than verbal structures.
		Feersum Endjinn captures a mix of post-apocalyptic anarchy, predicts the collapse of global networks into chaos and rolls the whole thing into an exciting, sexy and ultimately optimistic yarn that makes it the best Science Fiction book I've ever read.
	www.dooyoo.co.uk /printed-books/feersum-endjinn-iain-m-banks/22226 (334 words)

	feersum endjinn by Ian M Banks::j-san.net (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Most of Banks' sci fi is based in around 'the Culture', his AI supported Utopia.
		Feersum Endjinn is not a Culture novel, but it still follows the basic Banks formula.
		Namely, you spend the first half trying to figure out not just what's going on, but what kind of universe it's going on in, then, by about two thirds in you have to finish, even if that means staying up till 3:30 in the morning.
	www.j-san.net /node/29 (322 words)

	Consider Phlebas Review
		My introduction to Banks was via his excellent non-Culture novel Feersum Endjinn.
		Since reading Feersum Endjinn I have read Banks` other non-Culture SF novel, Against a Dark Backgound, which is quite good, and a Culture novella, "The State of the Art", which I didn`t like a whole lot.
		I`d rank it third among the three Banks novels I`ve read (Feersum Endjinn first, Against a Dark Background second), but third among these three is no insult.
	www.sff.net /people/richard.horton/phlebas.htm (781 words)

	Re: Feersum Endjinn Re: Against a Dark Backround, & other Banks - Opinio
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		Feersum Endijinn is set on a far future Earth.
		If I may quote the blurb on the back of the book as it will tell if far better than me :)
		It's not a big book but I ready slow, OK? :) So that's good for me! Well, as you can tell.
	www.iblist.com /list_reviews.php?id=927 (315 words)

	the pool of radiance: review: feersum endjinn
		How can you enshrine an enlightened, hands-off approach to other people’s business and still wage wars, hot or cold, if you feel they suit your purposes?
		Feersum Endjinn is not a novel about the Culture, though.
		FE is told, mostly, from a quartet of viewpoints: a scientist, a disembodied colonel, a naïve young woman, and a boy hoo rites lik thees coz sumfingz rong wif hiz hed.
	www.strangeradiation.com /blog/archive/000105.shtml (458 words)

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