![]() ![]() It's actually about those societies around the Culture, and how they interact and react to their enormously powerful neighbour. That said, most of this novel is not about utopian life in the Culture. The remaining pylons simply sit there, and decay. There's no reason for this, though it provokes a mass movement of people in favour and against, until, well, things move on. One eccentric individual galvanizes thousands of others to build a massive complex of pylons linked by cable-cars. There's a lovely example of this mental experiment in Look to Windward. ![]() In Look to Windward Banks' even imagines the boredom of those living in a society without exploitation, conflict, poverty and oppression. Everything, from sexuality and language, is up for grabs.īy setting the bulk of his stories in a society that has left the inequality and oppression of capitalism far behind, and replaced it with the joyous utopia that results from a society (the Culture) were resources are managed in the interests of all, Banks' is free to explore what things might be like. Banks' loves playing around with his imagination. ![]() His science fiction, and Look to Windward is a beautiful example, is full of experiment. ![]() Re-reading some of Iain Banks' works I'm constantly reminded how much we have lost with his untimely death. ![]()
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