12 Views of Iain M. Banks’s Culture
- But in the end, it’s still just cleaning a table
- It was the Culture’s fault
- Oh, they never lie
- The bomb lives only as it is falling
- A guilty system recognizes no innocents
- What is any achievement, however great it was, once time itself is dead?
- Empathize with stupidity and you’re halfway to thinking like an idiot
- I’m the smartest thing for a hundred light years radius, and by a factor of about a million
- All you ever were was a little bit of the universe, thinking to itself
- We deal in the moral equivalent of black holes
- If this goes badly and I make a crater, I want it named after me!
- Beauty is something that disappears when you try to define it
…beyond the Horizon
- I-II Just a Tiny Fraction
- II-I Same Physics or Not
- II-II the Event Horizon
- III-I One Amongst Billions
- III-II Swallowed Neighbours
- IV-I Laws of Nature
- IV-II Anthropic Selection
- V-I …and Then Silence
- V-II Like Falling Into a Black Hole
- VI-I Essential Requirements
- VI-II Literally Dark
- VII-I Earlier Universe
- VII-II How Much Can We Actually Understand?
- VIII-I About Galaxies
- VIII-II Long Term Future
- I-I …beyond the Horizon
