So, yesterday was the official kick-off of the Keep Portland Weird festival here in Paris, which meant that I had a reading/screening in the...
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In his Culture novels (Use of Weapons, Look to Windward, Player of Games, Consider Phlebas, Excession, the short story/novella collection State of the Art, and possibly Inversions...? Hard to tell on that one...) Banks draws an incredibly complete picture of a truly utopian future society. While it has its dark side, his scarcity-free, total freedom based Culture is the best possible techno-marxist vision I could imagine living within.
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Excession by Iain M. Banks
special_circumstances, January 22, 2007
In his Culture novels (Use of Weapons, Look to Windward, Player of Games, Consider Phlebas, Excession, the short story/novella collection State of the Art, and possibly Inversions...? Hard to tell on that one...) Banks draws an incredibly complete picture of a truly utopian future society. While it has its dark side, his scarcity-free, total freedom based Culture is the best possible techno-marxist vision I could imagine living within.(2 of 3 readers found this comment helpful)