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ReadMultiplex.com: You Have 5000 Days: Navigating the End of Work as We Know It. Part 35: Use of Weapons By Iain M. Banks.

C1AdvancedSeptember 11, 202640 min

Imagine a man who can win almost any war he is handed, and still cannot win the war inside his own name. Imagine a civilization so abundant it no longer needs soldiers of its own, so it borrows other people’s genius for violence and calls the arrangement morality. Imagine a chair that is not furniture. This is the cold thunder Iain M. Banks unleashes in Use of Weapons (https://amzn.to/4wmKNvq), the novel that asks the question The Player of Games only circled: after scarcity is solved, who gets used, and what does the using do to th...

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