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> Then the author asserts The Culture judges other civilizations by how close they are to values and priorities of The Culture itself. This is exactly the impr
by culturenothx 6y ago
> Then the author asserts The Culture judges other civilizations by how close they are to values and priorities of The Culture itself.
This is exactly the impression I got after reading Player of Games, the second Culture book I read, after Consider Phlebas, so I'm confused about your opinion
But that said, I found Player of Games trite and I kept finding myself siding with the "bad" guys and Consider Phlebas was literally forgettable, I read it six or so years ago and can't remember anything about it
Needless to say, I moved on to better series.
- p_l 6y agoThe big issue undermining TFA argument is that the Culture-Idiran war wasn't started by Culture, and for a time Culture simply gave space (this is, btw, the original tenet of Culture - that with habitats in space, they can simply move them). Unfortunately Idirans considered Culture anathema and accepted no other option than total destruction in name of religion.