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The Something Awful Forums > The Finer Arts > The Book Barn > No Gravitas Allowed -- The Iain [M.] Banks thread
 
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Spazzle
Jul 5, 2003

mcustic posted:

And what's with this parallel universe poo poo? First Ian McDonald pulls it in Brasyl, then Stephenson and Anathem, now Banks. Honestly, it stinks of low effort.

So, why did you hate it?
Infinite parallel universes is really a dumb storytelling gimmick. In the end, it doesn't really make sense in a story telling context.

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