Listening to the audio book "Consider Phlebas" by Iain M. Banks. It's just so good. And relevant.
If you haven't read it? Now is a great time. It's not like what a lot of people suggest... eg reading about dictatorships the dynamic is very different, but there are parallels to current political fault lines.
And it's a hopeful book--
If you have read it? It's better the second time. I missed so many little things!
Iain M. Banks was taken from us too soon. #scienceFiction #ianMBanks #books #SF
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@futurebird I think Surface Detail is more apt, with the Ultra-Wealthy in opposition to the ultimate socialist Culture who horribly outgun them and deals with religious beliefs in hell and […]
@futurebird Complicity is pretty good too. Non-culture.
@futurebird Yes! I’m re-reading all of #TheCulture books myself, and started there. I don’t get why some people say to skip it, and I love the character of Horza and the whole story. Peter […]
@futurebird It feels like a reply to Brave New World, especially Huxley’s letter to Orwell on “my dystopia is more dystopian” (it wasn’t) and Dune: an interstellar empire of John the Savage and […]
@futurebird Here's my favourite line:
"The game went on. Time, according to who you were, dragged or flashed by."
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@futurebird I just added to my reading wishlist. I have not read it yet.
@futurebird A sad loss indeed, though I'm glad of the prompt to review my shelves for fond memories (pictured - the others are around somewhere - they migrate). The Bridge was my favourite of […]
@futurebird strange, I have Use of Weapons but no others and I can't remember a thing about the book. Been looking for hard sci-fi and having been out of reading for a while I've been asking […]
@futurebird Now if only I can figure out what struck so many readers here where I live so negatively about the story. I found the Culture and the kinds of problems it worried about fascinating […]
@futurebird I read it recently. What got me was that I'd heard that these were Culture books, so I was expecting something epic along the lines of Dune or Asimov's Foundation. But I like that […]
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