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RE : Pour se lancer dans la Culture de Banks...
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24/05/2006 à 15h22
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extrait de la FAQ de rasfw :
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There are generally two recommended reading orders for Banks. None of the Culture books are directly connected, so in terms of spoilers it makes little difference, and generally most of the debate tends to be over which book should be read first.
The publication order is one that is often recommended:
CONSIDER PHLEBAS
PLAYER OF GAMES
USE OF WEAPONS
"The State of the Art" (see Question 12A)
EXCESSION
INVERSIONS
LOOK TO WINDWARD
"A Gift from the Culture" can be read after any book other than CONSIDER PHLEBAS
[LOOK TO WINDWARD uses as its jumping-off point the 200th(?) anniversary of some events of the war in CONSIDER PHLEBAS, but is not a direct sequel.]
This is frequently recommended, at least to the extent of "Read CONSIDER PHLEBAS first," because there are low-level spoilers for CONSIDER PHLEBAS in the other books, to the extent that you know more about the Culture than you otherwise would.
This is the order in which I read the books. I wasn't terribly impressed by CONSIDER PHLEBAS, and generally recommend the other order myself.
The other recommended order just reverses the first two, and reverts to publication order thereafter; this is because PLAYER OF GAMES is, in the opinions of those who recommend this order, a better book, and it certainly gives the best general picture of the normal, internal life in the Culture.
If you start with one of those two you probably will be fine. UoW is not generally recommended (although some people here will probably argue with that) because it needs some background. EXCESSION relies to even a greater extent on knowing about Culture Minds, though there are some people here who started with that without problems.
As for what the Culture is: well, keep in mind that although there are no plot spoilers here it will alter the impact of CONSIDER PHLEBAS advocated by the "read-CONSIDER PHLEBAS-first" faction.
[However, I have rot-13'ed it.]
Gur Phygher vf n hgbcvn, bs gur yrsg-yvoregnevna inevrgl (ab tbireazrag, ohg ab zbarl rvgure) juvpu vf jul zbfg bs gur fgbevrf gnxr cynpr nebhaq gur rqtrf; erfbheprf ner nohaqnag rabhtu gung crbcyr qb fghss orpnhfr gurl jnag gb be gb trg erfcrpg (be gb trg vaivgrq gb gur tbbq cnegvrf) engure guna sbe zbarl. (Sbe vafgnapr, Thetru va _Cynlre bs Tnzrf_ fcraqf uvf yvsr, jryy, cynlvat tnzrf.) Gur arne-bzavcbgrag Zvaqf eha fghss, juvpu vf jul guvf nyy jbexf. Fbzr crbcyr urer fnl uhznaf va gur Phygher ner rffragvnyyl crgf; V qba'g nterr jvgu guvf, naq gur Phygher uhznaf pregnvayl qba'g nterr, be gurl qba'g pner. (Gur Zvaqf qba'g pner nobhg jung uhznaf qb, pregnvayl.) Zbfg uhznaf va gur Phygher yvir ba irel ynetr fuvcf jvgu ragregnvavat anzrf (juvpu ner pbagebyyrq ol Zvaqf, naq juvpu tb jurer gurl jnag) be ba Beovgnyf (yvxr zvavngher Evatjbeyqf, ohg beovgvat gur cevznel engure guna pragrerq ba vg).
There is more than you would ever want to know at http://www.vavatch.co.uk/books/banks/cultnote.htm, which is Banks's "A Few Notes on the Culture".
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