Excession - Hi. I've read Excession twice now, but I still don't get the last chapter thing entirely. Anyone translated it? -- relax a little
For Auction - Iain Banks' Personal Effects CD - Low start price, no reserve and good condition. http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2542507915&category=301 46&rd=1
Storing mind states - Am re-reading Ex at the mo. Would anyone care to speculate if mind states can be copied or more accurately, duplicated? Banks rather suggests that a sentient life-form can have a mind state stored whilst using their natural one without ant sort of quantu...
Social limits to growth - The economics of Banks' Culture universe is post-economics, i.e. post-scarcity (since economics is the study of allocation of scarce resources). Something like the Culture only works if everything is nearly free. I've written about aspects of this..
Banksie's movie dreams - http://marathon.bungie.org/story/halo_culture.html A pretty cool site, discovered while googling to update SF Site's author listings. But, my god, blue on black lettering? Oh weel, at least no starry background amidst the DOS nostalgia... Q. How..
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