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“Banks… envisions the overcoming of scarcity as the signal achievement of the civilization made by the Minds, & yet he focuses time and again on objects of unfulfilled desire”
—Alan Jacobs on the Ambiguous Utopia of Iain M Banks, for The New Atlantis
8/13
https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/the-ambiguous-utopia-of-iain-m-banks
#Scottish #literature #fiction #sciencefiction #IainBanks #IainMBanks #TheCulture #utopia
HIPPY COMMIES WITH HYPER-WEAPONS
“I think space opera in general celebrates a certain manic wildness and vivacity of vision, a refusal to be constrained”
A Few Questions About the Culture – an interview with Iain M. Banks, on Strange Horizons
6/13
#Scottish #literature #fiction #sciencefiction #IainBanks #IainMBanks #TheCulture
“As a humanist, atheist, and socialist, he preferred to place his trust in techno-scientific development, rather than his faith in gods, or his capital in the market”
Joseph S. Norman on the legacy & utopianism of Iain M. Banks’s #scifi Culture series
7/13
#Scottish #literature #fiction #sciencefiction #IainBanks #IainMBanks #TheCulture #utopia
“Banks… envisions the overcoming of scarcity as the signal achievement of the civilization made by the Minds, & yet he focuses time and again on objects of unfulfilled desire”
—Alan Jacobs on the Ambiguous Utopia of Iain M Banks, for The New Atlantis
8/13
https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/the-ambiguous-utopia-of-iain-m-banks
#Scottish #literature #fiction #sciencefiction #IainBanks #IainMBanks #TheCulture #utopia
“Our strange wee country is as complex as any alien civilization, & getting it as right as Banks did in The Crow Road required every bit as much world-building skill as his Culture”
—Simon Stephenson travels THE CROW ROAD for Reactor Magazine
9/13
https://reactormag.com/the-difference-is-entirely-one-of-setting-iain-banks-the-crow-road/
#Scottish #literature #fiction #sciencefiction #IainBanks #IainMBanks #TheCulture
Why has Iain Banks’s Culture series – “a world where your Bezoses & your Musks are not just irrelevant, but actively sought out & disempowered” – garnered a billionaire fanbase? Kurt Schiller examines ultra-rich misreadings & delusions for Blood Knife
10/13
https://bloodknife.com/culture-war-iain-m-banks-jeff-bezos/
#Scottish #literature #fiction #sciencefiction #IainBanks #IainMBanks #TheCulture #billionaires
