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  • Banks’s first SF novel - pretty good though I didn’t find the main character especially likable.

    LOL. I don’t think the main character was meant to be likeable at all. Killing your sandbox friends and… uh, the rest of the story is as complicated as it is perverse… whatever, it’s certainly not a “likeable” or even remotely reproducable thing. It’s at best a hint of the main character being batshit crazy. Consider Phlebas, BTW, is widely considered Bank’s weakest SF novel which doesn’t mean it’s bad but that the rest of his work was a lot better. Anyway, I think if you liked Gibson you’ll hardly dislike Banks.