Columnated Ruins Domino

Iain M. Banks’ latest SF novel Matter is a welcome return to the environs of the Culture, and a welcome return to his estimable form after the earnest, but lamentable The Algebraist. Like most of Banks’ Culture novels, there are vast, powerful alien races; immense habitats housing trillions upon trillions, including the breathtaking interlaced orbital [...]

 
It’s hard to give a sense of how great this book is without showing you all the pictures, but if you close your eyes and repeat over and over “porn, monkeys, robots, cat-headed people, sinister bird-man dolls, amputees, and penguins” then you may get a good sense of what’s going on. Very disturbing graphic novel. [...]