What similarities to Marathon in Banks novels, come on, you gotta be kidding me! :) Which novel is this from; "Human: I just crapped my pants! Alien: That's funny it was supposed to make you eyes explode." The winner will receive my Mom in the mail.
Before I post this I gotta ask; Hamish, is this an acceptable post in this forum or should I need to get my a** more tight before I post something like this? Now the problem is that I can't ask this before I post so I'm just asking while I'm posting if you don't mind. Someone stop me! As I said he brings out the devil in me! Who? He he heee, don't believe everything you read! Oh, this letter is so clever I'm laughing so hard!
: I've now read more than half of the novel by that name from the author Iain
: M. Banks, who should be quite famous in this forum, and I've come across a
: passage which reminds a bit of Infinity. The basic story is that a strange
: object has appeared, and nobody knows where it's from. The only knowledge
: they have is that it had appeared a thousand years earlier to (although my
: memory deceives me on that number). It is found out that the object
: possesses a form of power management that could provide universe-hopping
: (travelling between universes) abilities to whoever could tame that power.
: Overall the book is quite hard to read unless you have a good memory, or do a
: lot of skipping back and forth, as there are dozens [spelling error?] of
: characters that seem crucial to the storyline but are only around for a
: couple of chapters. Will probably require a re-read to clear a few things
: up (for me, anyway).
