Thanks for the review and appreciating Iain Banks work. I would like to correct a couple of misconceptions for others who might read the novella after your review....... I dont see the the culture as space communism at all. The culture is a post-scarcity, unlimited energy society with very few if any rules. The culture rather than being a communist collective is much more a extreme libertarian, even anarchic society..... I understand banks to describe the culture as 'hippies with guns'..... The other mis-conception is the state of the art is set in late 70's Earth rather than the 80's or early 90's. All the best.
Thanks for the review and appreciating Iain Banks work. I would like to correct a couple of misconceptions for others who might read the novella after your review....... I dont see the the culture as space communism at all. The culture is a post-scarcity, unlimited energy society with very few if any rules. The culture rather than being a communist collective is much more a extreme libertarian, even anarchic society..... I understand banks to describe the culture as 'hippies with guns'..... The other mis-conception is the state of the art is set in late 70's Earth rather than the 80's or early 90's. All the best.
I think assumptions about post-scarcity behaviour, both here and in Roddenberry Star Trek, are what I mean by "space communism".
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