Iain M. Banks’ Culture Spits in the Eye of Nihilism

Iain Banks’ Culture novels are modern classics and should be required reading for anybody who likes science fiction. No, scratch that, for anybody, period. I see hand-wringing articles all the time about how science fiction has become the domain of anti-science fear-mongering and dystopian fiction. Well! Iain M. Banks writes the heck out of utopian sci-fi, and he does it with a wink in the face of nihilism, and it is wonderful.

Let’s just take a moment to appreciate The Culture, because The Culture, and Iain Banks, are fantastic.

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