Power, Predation and Privilege: Chapter 14 of Iain M. Banks' Surface Detail Exposed – Andrew Gibson Author Narrator Editor Curator

Power, Predation and Privilege: Chapter 14 of Iain M. Banks' Surface Detail Exposed – Andrew Gibson Author Narrator Editor Curator

Introduction: A Chapter That Peels Back the Skin of Privilege Chapter 14 of Surface Detail is less a passage of plot and more a brutal character dissection. Here, Iain M. Banks takes a breathless detour to show us Veppers in his natural habitat — not boardroom or battlefield, but something far worse: leisure. This chapter is not about narrative momentum. It’s about moral stasis. In it, we are shown the anatomy of power when it is left unchalleng…