Space Shoot'em up!

Iain Banks' "Culture" novels, I've found, are kind of like light-speed space opera cyberpunk. There's a fair bit of space-battling in "Excession", which I think is still in bookstores. But mostly the books are about how people deal with the fact that they live in a society where no one needs to work for a living and it's next to impossible to be killed or injured.AbE: Looks like Oook and I had the same brainstorm. Banks beats the pants off Weber and his contrived "naval ships in space" 2D battles. (It's as transparent a contrivance as the personal shields in Dune, where if you shoot them with a laser, you both go nuclear, but you can still stab the guy with a knife.)This message has been edited by crashfrog, 02-17-2005 15:29 AM