Just finished the first novel in Iain Banks's sci-fi Culture series Consider Phlebas. Not quite as outrageously imaginative as Liu Cixin, but getting there, and considerably better written in terms of basic style. My only reservation lay in the fact that I thought the action was overdone. Mr Banks clearly enjoys destroying things (as does Mr Liu, now I come to think of it) but it gets a bit wearing after the third or fourth semi-heroic escape.
I'm sure I'll find myself reading another in the series at some point, but it won't necessarily be all that soon. I can't be doing with an excess of over-excitement.
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