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It is a utopian novel, in one interpretation. That interpretation views it as about how utopia isn't necessarily all it's cracked up to be.


The Scottish writer Iain M. Banks has come up with a rather splendid utopia in his Culture novels (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Culture).

As he notes this causes a bit of a problem for a novelist in that a true utopia is actually pretty boring - so imperfections pretty much have to be introduced to give you something to write about.

[NB: I would be more than happy to become a Culture ambassador, if anyone is listening ;-)]


Well, yes, but possibly it's still better than our present society, which is the key question.




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