Even galaxy-spanning anarchist utopias of stupefying full-spectrum civ…

Iain Banks
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Even galaxy-spanning anarchist utopias of stupefying full-spectrum civilisational power have turf wars within their unacknowledged militaries. ✨ Iain Banks (2008). Matter, Orbit Books
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