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The Hydrogen Sonata. A Culture Novel Tapa blanda – 9 septiembre 2013

Edición en Inglés de Iain M. Banks (Escritor)
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The tenth Culture book from the awesome imagination of Iain M. Banks, a modern master of science fiction.

The Scavenger species are circling. It is, truly, the End Days for the Gzilt civilisation.

An ancient people, organised on military principles and yet almost perversely peaceful, the Gzilt helped set up the Culture ten thousand years earlier and were very nearly one of its founding societies, deciding not to join only at the last moment. Now they've made the collective decision to follow the well-trodden path of millions of other civilisations: they are going to Sublime, elevating themselves to a new and almost infinitely more rich and complex existence.

Amid preparations though, the Regimental High Command is destroyed. Lieutenant Commander (reserve) Vyr Cossont appears to have been involved, and she is now wanted - dead, not alive. Aided only by an ancient, reconditioned android and a suspicious Culture avatar, Cossont must complete her last mission given to her by the High Command. She must find the oldest person in the Culture, a man over nine thousand years old, who might have some idea what really happened all that time ago.

It seems that the final days of the Gzilt civilisation are likely to prove its most perilous.

Praise for the Culture series:

'Epic in scope, ambitious in its ideas and absorbing in its execution' Independent on Sunday

'Banks has created one of the most enduring and endearing visions of the future' Guardian

'Jam-packed with extraordinary invention' Scotsman

'Compulsive reading' Sunday Telegraph

The Culture series:
Consider Phlebas
The Player of Games
Use of Weapons
The State of the Art
Excession
Inversions
Look to Windward
Matter
Surface Detail
The Hydrogen Sonata

Other books by Iain M. Banks:
Against a Dark Background
Feersum Endjinn
The Algebraist

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  1. Libro 9 de 9
    The Culture
  2. Longitud de impresión
    640 páginas
  3. Idioma
    Inglés
  4. Editorial
    Little
  5. Fecha de publicación
    9 septiembre 2013
  6. Dimensiones
    12.6 x 4.2 x 19.8 cm
  7. ISBN-10
    0356501493
  8. ISBN-13
    978-0356501499
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25 years after Banks's first Culture novel he is as exuberant, slyly funny and mind-stretchingly imaginative as ever ― SUNDAY TIMES

Epic in scope, ambitious in its ideas and absorbing in its execution ― INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY

One of the most enduring and endearing visions of the future ― GUARDIAN

Sharply satirical and packed with brilliant action scenes, this space opera proves British SF's big beard still plays the best tunes ― BBC FOCUS

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The Scavenger species are circling. It is, truly, the End Days for the Gzilt civilisation. An ancient people, organised on military principles and yet almost perversely peaceful, the Gzilt helped set up the Culture ten thousand years earlier and were very nearly one of its founding societies, deciding not to join only at the last moment. Now they've made the collective decision to follow the well-trodden path of millions of other civilisations: they are going to Sublime, elevating themselves to a new and almost infinitely more rich and complex existence. Amid preparations though, the Regimental High Command is destroyed. Lieutenant Commander (reserve) Vyr Cossont appears to have been involved, and she is now wanted - dead, not alive. Aided only by an ancient, reconditioned android and a suspicious Culture avatar, Cossont must complete her last mission given to her by the High Command. She must find the oldest person in the Culture, a man over nine thousand years old, who might have some idea what really happened all that time ago. It seems that the final days of the Gzilt civilisation are likely to prove its most perilous.

Detalles del producto

  • Editorial ‏ : ‎ Little; N.º 1 edición (9 septiembre 2013)
  • Idioma ‏ : ‎ Inglés
  • Tapa blanda ‏ : ‎ 640 páginas
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0356501493
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0356501499
  • Peso del producto ‏ : ‎ 436 g
  • Dimensiones ‏ : ‎ 12.6 x 4.2 x 19.8 cm
  • Opiniones de los clientes:
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Ian Sullivan
5,0 de 5 estrellas Excellence
Revisado en España el 1 de abril de 2013
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Of all his Culture novels, this is the best I have read. I spent all my spare time buried in this story (and quite a lot of time I should have been doing something else). Simply (and literally) fantastic.
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4,0 de 5 estrellas Una lástima que se haya acabado
Revisado en España el 5 de junio de 2014
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Después de leer las dos novelas anteriores de la saga era reticente a leer ésta. Las dos anteriores me parecieron flojas, no totalmente insalvables, pero sí bastante alejadas del nivel al que Banks nos tenía acostumbrados. La muerte del autor además me temía que me iba a quedar un mal sabor de boca, sabiendo además que no había posibilidad de que Banks se redimiera. Por suerte, todos esos temores eran infundados.

Y es que, a pesar de no ser precisamente un peso pluma (más de 500 páginas, algo habitual en la saga), se trata de una novela que engancha desde muy pronto. El principio ya es intrigante: una nave perteneciente a una civilización a punto de Sublimarse destruye por razones desconocidas una nave desarmada perteneciente a otra civilización supuestamente amiga. A partir de ahí, Banks desarrolla un juego de gato y ratón entre un grupo de Mentes de la Cultura y un misterioso personaje para desentrañar el misterio. De fondo, las intrigas políticas y los tejemanejes propios de una civilización que está a punto de abandonar en masa lo Real para pasar a otro plano de existencia.

A diferencia de las dos novelas anteriores (y, en cierto modo, de las dos anteriores a éstas), en esta Sonata no sobra nada: todo ocurre al servicio de la historia y hace avanzar la trama. En cierto modo, me recuerda a Pensad en Phlebas, la novela que dio inició a la saga. Si no por trama o contenido, sí en espíritu. Como en aquélla, al final queda cierto regusto agridulce. La gran verdad al final no sale a la luz ni supone una gran diferencia. Una civilización entera se sublima sin distinciones: héroe o villano, pasas a la nueva dimensión sin que nada ni nadie cuestione tus méritos o deméritos. Al igual que en Phlebas, toda victoria trae sus propias derrotas.

En definitiva, una gran novela y un final más que digno para la saga. Sólo espero que, como en el caso de otras sagas famosas, nadie pretenda expandirla con nuevas entregas, porque es completamente innecesario.
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Montse Fernández Vives
5,0 de 5 estrellas Excelente
Revisado en España el 2 de junio de 2014
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Iain M Banks en su estilo habitutal. Cuesta entrar pero el paso se acelera a medida que avanzas en el libro. La única queja es que se acaba y desearias más.
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Sandeep Rao
5,0 de 5 estrellas Five Stars
Revisado en India el 4 de octubre de 2015
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Iain Banks is awesome. Enough said.
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James N. Von Riesen
5,0 de 5 estrellas Banks going out with a highly existential Bang
Revisado en Canadá el 13 de abril de 2013
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Fans of the Culture series will not be disappointed. This offering is full of the rich characters (including and perhaps especially the ship minds) moral & ethical quandaries, and a multitude of connected stories presented in such a manner as to feel complete and cohesive. Humor, bitterness, and real, valid philosophical pondering addressed from a perspective we've come to expect from Banks: sarcastic, satirical, face-slappingly direct and based on a deep understanding of "human" nature.

Even before reading Banks' tragic letter of impending sublimation (I was about 2/3 through the book when he posted his death notice), I had that the feeling that the author was at a stage in his life pondering advanced age and the possibilities of endings. in "The Outsider" Camus ponders the meaning of a life after death without memory of the life before death. Banks address similar weighty concerns from various characters and perspectives.

Fun, thought-provoking and very appetite-whetting.
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gdarmois
5,0 de 5 estrellas Le dernier volume du cycle de la Culture
Revisado en Francia el 9 de junio de 2014
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Pour ceux qui aiment et connaissent la Culture, ce dernier roman, dernier comme plus récent, mais aussi comme ultime puisque Iain M. Banks est mort, On y retrouve les vaisseaux AI aux noms interminables et quelques mortels de différentes races dans une intrigue bien construite et intelligemment développée.
Pour ceux qui ne connaissent pas encore I.M. Banks, ce n'est pas le plus facile d'accès car le lecteur est (implicitement) supposé connaitre la culture de la Culture, mais si vous aimez celui-ci, vous aurez l'immense, et souvent rare, joie d'avoir une dizaine de romans d'Iain M. Banks à savourer.
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Earle M. Butler
5,0 de 5 estrellas A spectacular entry. Banks hasn't lost it.
Revisado en los Estados Unidos el 3 de octubre de 2012
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"Is it true your body was covered in over a hundred penises?"
"No. I think the most I ever had was about sixty, but that was slightly too many. I settled on fifty-three as the maximum. Even then it was very difficult maintaining an erection in all of them at the same time, even with four hearts."

Iain M. Banks's latest Culture novel is representative of almost everything that has made the series so great. There's enlightened interference, hedonism, spectacular setpieces, diversely characterized Minds, space battle, black humor, and outlandish foolishness (see the above quote). The book, like Surface Detail and Matter, is packed with detail from Banks's imagination, yet avoids the pacing and bloat issues that those two books suffered from.

The Culture, for those who don't know, is a post-scarcity civilization which features in many of Banks's sci-fi novels. One of its most notable features are its Minds, wildly powerful AIs with colorful names such as Smile, Tolerantly and Pressure Drop.

Similar to Excession, it's the Minds who take center stage. The Gzilt, an advanced humanoid civilization which almost joined the Culture way back when, are about to sublime. To sublime is to enter a sort of transcendent existence in another dimension, where the scope of your understanding and enjoyment can expand to levels unthinkable in the `Real." 23 days before the Gzilt's big day, an alien ship arrives bearing a somewhat controversial secret. The ship is destroyed, and ever curious Culture Minds opt to tackle the crisis. Vyr Cossont, a somewhat irreverent and obsessive artist on a `life-task' to master the nearly unplayable `Hydrogen Sonata,' finds herself on a mission to meet up with QiRia, the Oldest Man in the Culture, who may be able to shed some light on the aforementioned secret.

In Excession, an elite group of Culture Minds collaborated to deal with a potentially galaxy threatening event. Here, the Minds are amusingly aware that their mission could end up completely pointless, yet they interfere anyway. The word `matter' is somewhat of a buzzword in this novel (ironically, it's probably used more than in Matter). Does the Culture's interference matter? Does the Truth matter? Does it matter whether or not we're in a simulation? Do civilizations matter? Does anything matter? Different characters, from a previously sublimed Mind to QiRia himself, offer interesting perspectives. The result is that Banks provides some thought provoking commentary on the nature of meaning in an ancient galaxy populated by thousands of civilizations only minor blips in the scale of history.

But it's not all philosophy. This is a very fun book, from the setpieces to the humor. The Minds are as funny and witty as ever. I don't want to describe any of the more remarkable settings, as to do so would lessen the impact of reading about them for the first time. Banks's imagination is in full force here, and once again he delivers on a satisfying climax which takes place against a wonderfully weird background.

The characters are satisfying, even if none are as great as Zakalwe in Use of Weapons. It's the Minds, notably Caconym and Mistake Not..., as well as QiRia, who stand out as great creations. Cossont is an interesting figure with a compelling backstory, but her role as a protagonist becomes less important when the Culture Minds really start to drive the action. Banstegeyn, an antagonist, doesn't achieve the heights of villainry that Veppers of Surface Detail does, but in some ways he's a more compelling, if less cool, character, more prone to guilt and self-doubt. There's also an android whose continued delusion that they're in a simulation provides some funny moments.

The plot wraps up nicely, reflecting many of the book's themes. The Hydrogen Sonata really delivered on what I want in a Culture novel: a compelling story, richly written Minds, sense of wonder settings, big idea themes, and some laugh out loud moments.
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