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For those of you who have read the culture novels - do you consider them to be utopian or dystopian?
I was discussing them with a friend recently and he views them as profoundly utopian. On the other hand, I view them as one of the best examples of a soft dystopia that I've ever read.
I think they're fairly boring, meself.
The only one I was able to really sink my teeth into was Excession, and that's primarily due to how it focuses on the various Minds and the squabbles/conversations/complaints they get into dealing with one another and various Culture citizens.
Mind, part of the issue might be due to Banks falling into the typical habit alot of sci-fi writers do and making their protagonists/'human' charachters so goddamn unlikable. It's like there's a school of writing who think that 'cantankerous bitch' is somehow an interesting character.
Okay, maybe I'm being a little bit unfair, but it wouldn't stick with me so much if I didn't see so many writers doing it.
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