The Culture thinks about HR, and Sma hangs out with Linter.

We also have a chat about Sugar and Elon's interview with The Economist which takes The Culture's name in vain.

If you haven't seen the interview it's at: https://youtu.be/XuoqKYxDHVc?si=c3__ae_Mw1BMPHm3

Get ready for a deep dive into the Paris and Berlin of the late 1970s, and relive the drunken holiday hookups of your youth.

Sma takes a museum tour and we come to grips with the memory of our own past.

The triumphant return of Diziet Sma and we're taking the show to Planet Earth folks!

One of the earliest Culture works, we get to know a world eerily like that of BladeRunner and a Culture renegade in more trouble than they can handle.

At journey's end we can look back and discuss the costs of victory and defeat.

We find out who Zakalwe really is...

Possibly the most infamous chapter in science fiction history. Zakalwe receives a present.

Zakalwe has a breakdown followed by an even more terrible day, but we get the standout quote of the book.

Zakalwe takes the slow road to the stars, and almost doesn't make it.