5/27/2023 0 Comments Zakalwe surface detail![]() ![]() Similar to other Culture novels, Use of Weapons is a bemusing journey through times and places that appear both familiar and foreign, a tackling of omnipresent human problems platformed on the never-dull contrast between the magnanimous Culture and the poor corners of the galaxy that haven’t yet joined the fold. But did he create a once-in-a-generation vision of post-scarcity human life that should be honored and explored by all literate apes? I think so. Was his prose the best anyone could hope to find in the science fiction section? Unlikely. Was his grasp of science and futurism vastly superior to that of his many talented contemporaries? I doubt it. Was Banks the smartest or most creative science fiction writer of all time? Definitely not. Banks’s Culture novels, I can safely say that they should be required reading for all humans. ![]()
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