A review by halibut
Excession by Iain M. Banks

3.0

The good bit of this was when it felt like being on a space tourbus, with the writer showing me a succession of cool and odd things he's come up with. The amount of different things packed in left each individual bit feeling pretty thin, particularly the human characters, and like the fairly simple central plot was getting too stretched out. There's some interesting parallels and disconnects between the stories of individual ships & humans in places. I don't know, I liked it ok, but prefer things with a much smaller scope generally.