![]() ![]() “It was kind of like a magician’s trick,” Caroti says. When Banks started writing Culture in the early ’70s, space opera was widely derided as tired and juvenile, which made it the perfect Trojan horse for Banks’ brand of radical left-wing politics. The Culture series falls into the space opera genre and features many standbys of the form such as giant spaceships, planet-smashing weapons, and galaxy-spanning adventures. ![]() ![]() “His friend and fellow science fiction writer Ken MacLeod recounted an occasion on which Banks came to London to participate in this demonstration, which-inevitably for those times, I imagine-ended in a massive fight, and Banks gleefully waded into the fight, supporting his intellectual points with his fists,” Caroti says in Episode 209 of the Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy podcast. ![]()
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