![]() ![]() ![]() It’s fun to see Banks filter Vosill’s extremely foreign nature through the eyes of someone native to this world. First, I like that it’s narrated in first person by her assistant, Oelph, who is spying on her for an unnamed “Master”. Honestly, I much preferred the Doctor’s narrative over DeWar’s, for a few reasons. I’m going to address it from the point of view of a Culture fan with a lot of my analysis. And the Culture is definitely a presence, but it is one that the reader has to tease out and infer-if you haven’t read any of the other Culture novels, then you can still enjoy this story, you’ll just be missing a patina that adds a little bit more flair to that enjoyment. The two narratives never intersect directly, but they are definitely related. Alternating chapters follow Vosill, foreign doctor to the King Quience of Haspidus, and DeWar, bodyguard to the regicide Protector UrLeyn of Tassasen, half a continent away. On its surface, this is a split narrative on a pre-industrial planet. And I may very well just do that this summer, because why not?įor those who aren’t familiar with the premise to this one: the Culture is not mentioned by name at all in Inversions. Inversions has really just made me want to go back and re-read the other novels now. It has been too long since a visit to Iain M. ![]()
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