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“Science fiction is trying to find alternative ways of looking at realities.”

Iain Banks · Science

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Iain Banks

Torture is such a slippery slope as soon as you allow a society or any legal system to do that, almost instantly you get a situation where people are being tortured for very trivial reasons.

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Technology determines the possibilities of society. It doesn't matter whether you start out from a fascist state or a communist state or a free-market state.

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My point has always been that, ever since the Industrial Revolution, science fiction has been the most important genre there is.

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Iain Banks

In so much of politics you're not allowed to disagree with what's been agreed.

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