Yeah, I have to say that sounds pretty lame. Maybe Greg Egan (I've never read any of his books) was doing something à la Thomas More's Utopia-- positing a rather ridiculous "ideal" society in order to critique the present one?
One idea I really liked about the Culture as depicted Iain Banks' novels was the ability of its members to switch sexes on a whim... although even that seems sort of limited given the technology one might assume a civilization of its level to have.
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Date: 2006-12-10 01:35 am (UTC)One idea I really liked about the Culture as depicted Iain Banks' novels was the ability of its members to switch sexes on a whim... although even that seems sort of limited given the technology one might assume a civilization of its level to have.