What is a book that you will gladly read again? (lemmy.world)

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[-] MintyFresh@lemmy.world 0 points 8 months ago

Love the culture series! Communism..... In space!!! Though I'd say to anyone who hasn't read them yet to skip the first and come back to it. It's a great novel, but it smells like the 80's. Was my first read in the series and it turned me off to the rest of them until years later when I have the series another chance

[-] sxan@midwest.social 2 points 8 months ago

IMHO, post-scarcity is really the only way communism works. And it's not true communism in the Culture; people still own things - artifacts, art, themselves. And it's also not communism in the Marxist sense, where the workers own the means of production, because there isn't a working class and production is largely automated. It's some sort of post-Communism thing we don't have a name for. Or, maybe we do, and I just don't know it?

[-] sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 8 months ago

I've only read one post-scarcity novel and that's Down And Out in the Magic Kingdom by Cory Doctorow. I think it's his first novel.

[-] sxan@midwest.social 2 points 8 months ago

I've heard of it, and I like Doctorow, but haven't read it. I'll put it in the list.

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