6/20/2023 0 Comments Surface detail bookuk: They're a bit like Hobbits - proud of their heritage.īanks: Yes. I thought in a sense they are all aristocrats, with the very long names, often with the place where you're born. It also struck me that in the Culture, citizens have the lifestyle and access to luxury that in our history only aristocrats have had access to. We'd live in a giant hive, and dress identically in dungarees. There seemed to be all this convention that in the future everyone would have numbers for names. uk: One thing newcomers to the Culture novels will have to grapple with is the incredibly elaborate names of the characters.īanks: A lot of what the Culture is about is a reaction to all the science fiction I was reading in my very early teens. Banks: This one takes place about 800 years later on in the chronology of the Culture, that's why you've now got the whole potential of the turf wars, because Contact has hived off itself into different bits and there are various bureaucratic evolutions going on within the Contact section itself.
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