Here’s everything you to know about them… Iain Banks’s Culture novels are some of the most complex, visionary, and acclaimed space opera novels ever written. Elon Musk named SpaceX’s two operational autonomous spaceport drone ships after spaceships in the Culture novel The Player of Games: Just Read the Instructions and Of Course I Still Love You. (Then again, we live in a time when Paul Ryan can claim Rage Against the Machine is his favorite band despite representing everything the band rages against.) Bezos isn’t the only tech baron to admire Banks’s work.
On Twitter, CEO Jeff Bezos claimed the book was “a huge personal favorite,” a bit ironic since the novel is about a future anarchist utopia in which humans have finally escaped the very kind of capitalist oppression, wealth inequality, and rampant consumerism that makes Amazon possible.
Last week, Amazon announced it will be adapting Consider Phlebas, the first book in Iain Banks’s acclaimed space opera Culture novels.
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