Consider Phlebas, by Iain M. Banks: Peripheral Storytelling and the Politics of Genre

In my introductory essay on Iain Banks and the Culture, Caledonian Antisyzygy and the Principle of Charity, I mention that he approached fiction with a certain kind of duality, representingRead More Consider Phlebas, by Iain M. Banks: Peripheral Storytelling and the Politics of Genre