“If you want to know how Banks views capitalist tech billionaires, you don’t have to hunt very hard. In the Culture series, a capitalist tech billionaire is the literal devil, only he couldn’t be bothered to build hell himself.”
—Constance Grady on how the broligarchy misreads Iain M. Banks’s Culture novels
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