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Iain Banks said he wrote The Culture series as a response to the authoritarian military science fiction of the 1960s. While not exactly utopian (The Culture is
by cpeterso 9y ago
Iain Banks said he wrote The Culture series as a response to the authoritarian military science fiction of the 1960s. While not exactly utopian (The Culture is rather imperialistic), the books show a positive possible future. Banks's writing reminds me a bit of Douglas Adams' Hitchhikers Guide.
- cpeterso 9y agoOn further thought, "imperialistic" is not the right word. The Culture doesn't colonize other peoples, but Contact and Special Circumstances are definitely meddlesome.