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locopati on April 3, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: A Personal Statement from Iain Banks

This news puts his last two novels, Surface Detail and Hydrogen Sonata, in an interesting light, the former being about virtual hells and the latter being about a species transcending[1].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sublimed

aardvark179 on April 3, 2013 [–]

Those aren't his last two books, those would be Stonemouth and the Hydrogen Sonata.

I'm not sure what meaning you can draw from that unless you know of a sexual indiscretion that Iain committed at a wedding. :-)

locopati on April 3, 2013 | [–]

I should have been more specific in the original comment...'his last two Culture books'.

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