This time, we talk about a novella in the late, great Iain M. Banks’s famed Culture sci-fi series, which is centered around a utopian, post-scarcity society that spans various planets (and other habitats) within the Milky Way galaxy. They have hope. The Culture has statistics. So says Linter, one of the chief protagonists in The State of the Art. In the story, a group of  Continue Reading …