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| − | In February 2018, Amazon Studios announced that it had acquired the rights to ''Consider Phlebas'' and would be adapting it into a show exclusive to the Amazon streaming service. The script was to be penned by British television writer Dennis Kelly and the program produced by the American company Plan B Entertainment.<ref>https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180221005519/en/</ref> It was cancelled in August 2020, with the estate stating |
+ | In February 2018, Amazon Studios announced that it had acquired the rights to ''Consider Phlebas'' and would be adapting it into a show exclusive to the Amazon streaming service. The script was to be penned by British television writer Dennis Kelly and the program produced by the American company Plan B Entertainment.<ref>https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180221005519/en/</ref> It was cancelled in August 2020, with the estate stating the "timing wasn't quite right."<ref>https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/aug/26/amazon-tv-adaptation-of-iain-banks-culture-series-is-cancelled</ref> |
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| Consider Phlebas | |||
| Author | Iain M. Banks | ||
| Publisher | Macmillan Publishers | ||
| Publication Date | 1987 | ||
| Page Count | 471 | ||
| ISBN | 0-333-45430-8 | ||
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Consider Phlebas is Iain M. Banks' first novel in the Culture series.
Synopsis
Set in 1331 CE, the novel follows Bora Horza Gobuchul, a male Changer who works as a special agent for the Idiran Empire in the opening stage of the Idiran-Culture War (1327-1375). Horza is ordered by the Idirans to capture a prototype Culture Mind which has become stranded on Schar's World, a planet inaccesible to all except Changers. Along the way, he joins a crew of space mercenaries and joins them in their exploits. Throughout the book he works to evade and outwit his archrival Perosteck Balveda, a Special Circumstances agent charged with returning the Mind to the Culture.
Characters
- Bora Horza Gobuchul
- Perosteck Balveda
- Fal 'Ngeestra
- Jase
- Kraiklyn
- Yalson
- Aviger
- Dorolow
- Xoralundra
- Xoxarle
TV Adaptation
In February 2018, Amazon Studios announced that it had acquired the rights to Consider Phlebas and would be adapting it into a show exclusive to the Amazon streaming service. The script was to be penned by British television writer Dennis Kelly and the program produced by the American company Plan B Entertainment.[1] It was cancelled in August 2020, with the estate stating the "timing wasn't quite right."[2]
Bibliography
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