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Re:The Culture Novels as a Dystopia by DowsingSpoon on Monday September 15, 2025 @10:57AM (#45250461)
How so? In this context, “tedious” clearly means “not very exciting for the reader.” Were you hoping for more relationship drama, or romance? I’d be down for that. Though, it doesn’t seem to be what Banks was most interested in writing about.
Re:The Culture Novels as a Dystopia by bryanrasmussen on Monday September 15, 2025 @02:01PM (#45252918)
It is often remarked, by those who may be assumed to have some insight into it, that the difficulty in writing Superman is to convey his perfection and goodness, but that for people who do not understand Superman well the difficulty is that he is too perfect and unbeatable and thus boring.

I put forward thus that in the same way Superman can be tedious so can Utopias, and Utopias can be interesting in the same way that Superman can.

Re:The Culture Novels as a Dystopia by JumpCrisscross on Monday September 15, 2025 @06:33PM (#45255775)
> Were you hoping for more relationship drama, or romance? I’d be down for that

It’s tedious to a modern audience. Hemingway but in space isn’t really an improvement. (The closest we have is Ted Chiang.)