Iain Banks' new novel

I had been so distracted by the similarity to 'Palimpsest' by Charles Stross and the Luther Arkwright comics by Brian Talbot that it wasn't until page 244 of 'Transition' and Banks was just explaining solipsism that I realised he was also aping, mirroring, homaging or plagarising his own earlier work 'The Bridge'. Or perhaps it was a slight of hand and the patient in bed was only tipping his figurative hat in the direction of that novel to make the reader think that it is all just a dream or delusion and none of it really happened. That would be a disappointing ending to a slightly disappointing book. In that it owes so much to Stross and Talbot.

Also, the clumsy plot holes are annoying. This novel definately needed heavier editing.