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Jan 18, 2015StarGladiator rated this title 2 out of 5 stars
The only Banks' book I've ever found disappointing [and as the author of The Player of Games, I consider him to be the greatest SF writer of all time], where the fictions is quite banal compared to the reality. Had he fictionalized the City of London Corporation, the oldest continuously existing corporation, which predates the Norman Conquest, one might have been more impressed. And with the International Chamber of Commerce having a seat in perpetuity on the UN, the premise of the plot is almost irrelevant.