![]() ![]() )īut I was a little puzzled by something towards the end. I liked it a lot, it was funny, grandiose, sad and sulking in more or less equal parts, though I felt you cheated a little bit. Well, I tried to sort of ration LTW, but past page 100 there's no stopping, is there. Except the Culture doesn't have its own economic self-interest at heart, so it's nicer. Is this policy a deliberate echo of the way the West no longer colonises by force but instead achieves similar ends through cultural and economic imperialism and the aggressive promotion of democracy? It uses persuasion, reason, direction and the odd dirty trick rather than overt conquest - despite (or perhaps because of) any invasions or wars it may have started in the past. The Culture tries to assimilate new peoples gradually. ![]() I tend to leave all the hard stuff to my publishers. Would you ever consider publishing an e-book? (I'm sure you're popular enough for it to be worthwhile financially.) ![]()
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