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Iain M. Banks: The State Of The Art (Paperback, 2007, Night Shade Books)

The first ever collection of Iain Banks’s short fiction, this volume includes the acclaimed novella, …

from enjoyable to just plain weird

about the eponymous story, is it weird i always side with the culture? from the first novel (where the main protagonist is a fierce opponent of the culture), i always thought it would be nice to live there

i’m guessing it is a trap only if you forget the post-scarcity hypothesis. as such it only is an unreachable and unrealizable utopia in our times