Free Podcast of TRANSITION by Iain M. Banks
- - September 23rd, 2009
Apparently I am what is known as an Unreliable Narrator, though of course if you believe everything you’re told you deserve whatever you get.’
Iain M. Banks is back with TRANSITION, an apocalyptic fable for terrible times.
And starting today we’re serializing the abridged audio edition of TRANSITION on iTunes. Each Tuesday and Friday you can download a new chapter of the abridged edition for free.
“TRANSITION is a book that makes you think, one that makes you look at the world around you in a different light, and it’s also a properly thrilling read. If only more contemporary fiction was like it.” — The Independent
Enon Harris
September 27, 2009
at 10:15 pm
The first two installments are quite good. It seems a bit much to space out the installments of the book over twelve weeks, though, and rather insulting to the work to blithely cut it from thirteen hours to just six.
The blurb from The Independent contains a suppurating solecism: “If only more contemporary fiction was like it.” Such an illiterate recommendation is unworth repeating. As Lewis Carroll noted: “`Contrariwise,’ continued Tweedledee, `if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn’t, it ain’t. That’s logic.’”