Posted: Mar 05, 2011 2:45 pm
The two best novels Iain Banks has written were the first two in each genre, namely Consider Pheblas and The Wasp Factory. After that it went downhill. I have read The Player Of Games, Inversions and Excession, but they did nothing for me. Pheblas is excellent - I would read it again. If you however you want to read a consistently brilliant author, then your man is Alastair Reynolds. The best science fiction author on the planet, bar none. End of.