A futuristic worlds most exotic of the author and one of the most successful also ...

This novel stirred a futuristic universe's most exotic of those created by the author and this is also one of the most successful among those of the cycle of Culture.
Culture is an ultra futuristic society where the artificial intelligences have citizenship rights.

The plot is pretty solid: a refugee from a warlike civilization finds asylum in "culture".
He composed a symphony with a very strong symbolic for its civilization and this makes it a prime target for the emissary of his countrymen with Culture.
This symphony is also dedicated to the conflict that raged in: A form of warfare ..

Would the Culture hedonistic society that makes much of the well-being and fulfillment of its nationals to be ashamed of things that weigh on his conscience ..?
Any tending to perfection it appears to be, she has a moral conscience and a practical sense of ethics in action?
This is the main theme of this text, moral and political, ethical principles and political real state ...

An undeniably solid plot, with characters and tailored Quà perfection. Of character and a plot quite live up to this stunning universe significantly disorienting the reader.

Culture, civilization managed by credible AI is once again facing a foreign world and another.
The ideological gives Culture when she "contacted" a civilization without, is again declined and developed so it's a bit: variation on a theme.

The amateur of the theme of contact I'm thoroughly enjoyed this delightful menagerie of alien and artificial.
Geopolitical aspects and those related to the culture and civilization of book are delicious and it's one of my best moments in intelligent creatures aliens company (sometimes a little too much for me!) ....

This part of the cycle in which different volumes can be apprehended separately stands on an orbital.
This is a huge artificial habitat that sail in space and which is almost an artificial planet.
This environment is gorgeous and totally captivating simply.

this aspect is laid credible ways:
The author makes us even visit the pipe and this is tasty.
Very solid qualities of this text should not underestimate an inescapable reality: it is not so simple to embark in this universe.
The geopolitical and diplomatic arguments, the ultra futuristic civilization, the complexity of some strange bugs or certain IA, the intricacies of the plot:
make this universe is difficult to access.

It's not that IQ required for pegging the topo is too high, not you come to follow ...
But rather that this exquisite complexity hinders some fun. Frankly I must confess that I mostly enjoyed this novel proofreading ..