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RangerScience
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The Culture War: Iain M. Banks’s Billionaire Fans
If memory serves, Excession starts with something going wrong.
detritus
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And is the source of the wonderful term, an 'Outside Context Problem':
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excession#Outside_Context_Prob...
RangerScience
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Ayup. And that concept then implies the corollary: Outside Context Solution.
Fav example for both is Buffy shooting that ancient demon thing with a bazooka.
scotty79
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'Matter' at no point felt like utopia to me.
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