The City and The City is a weird book. On the one hand, it’s a hard-boiled police procedural novel, in a line that most readers would be familiar with. On the other, there is a core element of the story about perception of reality, and what we see and choose not to see, that requires the reader twist their brain some.
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Today I’m reviewing the first installment in The Culture Series that I’ve read – not the first one in the series (that’s next week), but my introduction to the series.
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Matter is my first step into the world of The Culture. I’ve heard bits and pieces about it through a variety of other sources, from the absurd ship names, to the concept of Outside Context Problems, to the absurdly high tech level – but I’ve never actually read a novel in the universe. While Matter is not the first book in the series, it is a pretty good jumping on point to the series.
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