My take: The Culture is socialist Iain Banks tacitly admitting that socialism is so incompatible with human nature that it can never work without benevolent (?) gods to keep the humans in line.https://twitter.com/orthonormalist/status/1224432350919921666 …
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I came to them late, after a UK based person said they were "better than Niven." Well, no. Worth reading, but beating Ringworld? So much nope. As for the socialism, yep, it's all over the books. Banks posits a post-scarcity economy with unlimited energy and living space. 1/2
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Throw in benevolent AIs running vast ships and Orbitals and I'm not surprised someone from socialism-leaning Britain would love it. I enjoyed the heck out of the space living and travel, but the society? Not so much. 2/2
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