When you talk about people you make them important. I want to think more about who I choose to make important.
Even if you are criticizing someone, burying their bad ideas with logic and all the knives of science you're still making them and their ideas important.
You can expect me to talk about Iain M. Banks more and the questions I have about his work.
It's why it's probably is a good idea to do a critical review of Newitz and their "Terraformers" which I also have questions about.
@futurebird Ooh, OK. My starter. I think Iain M. Banks wrote slightly better books as Iain Banks, than Iain M. Banks. Controversial I know.
He wrote my favourite opening line of a book ever.
"It was the day my grandmother exploded"
I couldn't put it down, but I was NOT having a good time.
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My English teacher introduced me to The State of the Art. I read the other early Culture novels before trying some of the without-the-M ones. I think Whit is the only one I enjoyed enough to reread. They were mostly good in the ‘I understand and admire the technical skill required to write this’ sense and not in the ‘I enjoy this’ sense.
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Malcolm Herbert
David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*)