Transition - The Extras App

[Forum Admin]

And a bit more info here as well: http://www.iain-banks.net/2010/06/28...ks-iphone-app/

[JimmyB]

I don't see the difference either but it's usually only hardbacks you can get at new release book signings. If it wasn't for that I'd have a few more paperbacks.

The difference is that hardbacks look a lot nicer, and don't look all tatty after a few reads or disintegrate after a few more reads like paperbacks. I'm planning to start replacing my library with hardbacks where I can, the favourites anyway, and will mostly buy in hardback now I'm worth a bit more than I was as a student.

[Deep Black]

But don't you find them more awkward to hold & read? Especially the big thik ones.

[RedKing]

I must have big hands, Deep. And you know what they say about men with big hands...

[Conscious Bob]

And a bit more info here as well: http://www.iain-banks.net/2010/06/28...ks-iphone-app/

Cheers DT, Here was I thinking I had the model without the optional extras.

[daveh]

A slightly different take from The Independent at http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-en...e-2015138.html

[daveh]

A review at http://marklord.info/2010/07/02/revi...ks-iphone-app/ says the content is:

Free to everyone:

• Timeline of Iain’s books
• RSS feed of Iain news

Unlockable content:

• 3 page list of characters and places from Transition
• 15 page synopsis of Transition
• Video interview about the context of Transtion
• Video interview about the context and timeframe of Transition
• 2 part Video interview about “The Concern”
• 17 page essay on The Spheres
• Video interview about Surface Detail

It also talks about how to unlock the content if you have the hardback edition by being asked for a word from a certain page and line.

[Deep Black]

& have you seen/heard it Dave?

I assume I can't get all this great stuff just with the Hard Back wittout all the "i" stuff?

[marklord]

The video about Surface Detail gives a bit more information too than the blurbs available elsewhere, but not a huge amount. I blogged about this recently, here's what I found out:

Firstly he tells us that the book is 200,000 words long, whereas his longest books have been usually around 180,000 words (Consider Phlebus for example).

There’s everything you would expect from a Culture novels – drones, spaceships and knife missiles. Oh and also some human stories too!

“Lededje Y’breq is one of the Intagliated”. She appears to be the main character. Her story revolves around how she loses her tatooes, refinds themand then falls in with the Culture, via two spaceships: a General Systems Unit and a derange Abominator class warship.

Intagliated means to be tatooed everywhere including internal organs, to pay debt for families past crimes.

Part of story is set in “hells” and involves the Culture’s wars against the “hells” which are horrible after-life places. Not much more about what these are but I am guessing these are some sort of virtual worlds where the dead go?

Another major character is fighting wars in the virtual world and now in the real world. It has been a long war in the virtual world (over 30 years), and the Culture is desperate to stop it spilling over into the real world.

[Deep Black]

Good find & welcome marklord