The achievements of the revolutionary war in Vietnam include not just self-determination after a century of oppression by foreign colonialists but the freeing of people to fulfil their potential and the provision of state support for education, health, childcare, and care for the elderly. In other words, just as is the case for most modern household technology, it freed women from the tyranny of domestic servitude.
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Transition is the new novel by Iain Banks–not, readers might notice, Iain M. Banks. This is noteworthy in that Banks has over a number of years alternated works of science fiction (when he uses the “M”) and mainstream fiction (albeit with some speculative elements) when the “M” is noticeably absent.* However, this is a story about people who can transition or flit from body to body across a multitude of parallel worlds, some of which are almost identical to our world and some are completely different, with continents still in Pangaea-like states and so forth.
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