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I met Mr Banks once (empty bookshop signing) and he told me that he wrote the Culture books because he was sick of so much popular SF being “capitalism in space
by peterclary 3y ago
I met Mr Banks once (empty bookshop signing) and he told me that he wrote the Culture books because he was sick of so much popular SF being “capitalism in space”.
- arethuza 3y agoI discovered the "Fully Automated Luxury Gay Space Communism" meme the other week and it still makes me smile - seems like a pretty good description of the Culture and I'm sure Mr Banks would approve.
- rsynnott 3y agoHuh, I always assumed that that one was already in circulation when we was around, but apparently "Fully Automated Luxury Communism" only showed up the year after he died.
- angry_octet 3y agoI missed meeting him at the Edinburgh fringe by 20 minutes and I'm still dejected by that. In the era before selfies and tweeting was a thing, and serendipitous bumping into authors at book fairs was possible.