Listening to the audio book "Consider Phlebas" by Iain M. Banks. It's just so good. And relevant.
If you haven't read it? Now is a great time. It's not like what a lot of people suggest... eg reading about dictatorships the dynamic is very different, but there are parallels to current political fault lines.
And it's a hopeful book--
If you have read it? It's better the second time. I missed so many little things!
Iain M. Banks was taken from us too soon. #scienceFiction #ianMBanks #books #SF
Got the Iain Banks drawings book as a gift and it’s really incredibly charming just how much it resembles an 80s teenagers notes on their Traveller campaign. #sciencefiction #ianmbanks
WE HAVE ARRIVED
My friends! We have entered the final #poll of the #ScienceFiction #SpaceOpera Series Challenge.
The FINAL FOUR are:
#TheExpanse by #JamesSACorey
#ThreeBodyProblem by #LiuCixin
Which one is the BEST? VOTE!!!
and BOOST this poll 
hehe, it's from when I did my degree in #Sociology, #Film and #AmericanStudies. I wedged #StarTrek in everywhere I could!
Also, growing up on Trek was a gateway to me becoming an actual #Marxist in my teens as both posit a future utopia. The beloved #FullLuxuryQueerSpaceCommunism that you also find in #IanMBanks #CultureNovels
@eric
I suppose that depends on which parts of #IanMBanks' #TheCulture you enjoyed and are looking for more of. I would start by recommending Becky Chambers' Wayfarers and Martha Wells' Murderbot. Neither are quite the same, but both are very enjoyable in their own right with similarities to Banks' work.
#scifi
I made a remark about baby goats and now I'm thinking about the internalisation of oppression, the panopticon and how capitalism hobbles our very souls. Again.
Once we have #FullLuxuryQueerSpaceCommunism, once we have Banks' #Culture, once ALL HUMANS EVERYWHERE are truly free, these times will be seen as little better than feudalism.
#ACAB applies to our Inner Cop too.
I just finished book one of #TheCultureSeries, #ConsiderPhlebas by #IanMBanks and now I've started #ChildrenOfTime by #AdrianTchaikovsky.
I'm still evaluating Consider Phlebas. It's amazing world building & a rather intense plot, but it kinda lacks both philo & psycho depth IMHO. (The ending, though, is heart-rending to me.) But I do have book 2 coming and will continue the series.
Children of Time is starting out very interesting. Perhaps a bit more my taste. We'll see.
#ScienceFiction
