About this episode
Banks’ Culture novels, about a utopian space-faring civilization, are hugely influential in both SF literature and the tech industry. Award-winning critic Abigail Nussbaum joins us to discuss Excession, a Culture novel about proxy conflicts and interventionist politics, existential threats, and…problematic exes?
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Credits:
Guest: Abigail Nussbaum
Title: Excession by Iain M. Banks
Host: Jake Casella Brookins
Music by Giselle Gabrielle Garcia
Artwork by Rob Patterson
Opening poem by Bhart?hari, translated by John Brough
Transcribers: Kate Dollarhyde and John WM Thompson
References:
Vector
Los Angeles Review of Books
The Guardian
