![]() ![]() The Culture novels reveal and play through a series of ways in which an all-powerful and benign civilisation can still face genuine problems. This is heaven, and Heaven, as Talking Heads remark, is a place where nothing ever happens – but something must happen if our interest is to be held, and, of course, it does. ![]() When you think about it, the possibilities for boredom are immense. This longevity is, in a way, surprising because the Culture is a genuine utopia, a galaxy-wide post-scarcity civilisation that has access to free energy (lifted from the grid between parallel universes, since you ask) and overseen by enormously powerful yet amazingly benign Minds. ![]() Ten books published over twenty-five years, many brilliant and not one of them a real turkey – such is the achievement of Iain M. ![]() General Warning: this is emphatically not a spoiler-free Forum! Hence all of the text all of the contributions will be safely below the fold, and only the identifying information for the author of the contribution will be here for even causal browsers to see.Ĭhris Brown is Professor of International Relations at the London School of Economics. ![]()
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