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Mike Smith

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A reread of Consider Phlebas Iain Banks' Culture setting is probably the closest thing to outright paradise in science fiction. It's an interstellar post-scarcity techno-anarchist utopia, where sentient machines do all the work and the humans hang around engaging in hobbies or other hedonistic… http://selfawarepatterns.com/2025/06/29/a-reread-of-consider-phlebas/

2025-06-29T14:40:27.642Z