The Culture is a fictional anarchist, socialistic, and utopian society created by the Scottish writer Iain M. Banks and described by him in several of his novels and shorter fictions.
The Culture is characterised by being a post-scarcity society (meaning that its advanced technologies provide practically limitless material wealth and comforts for everyone for free, having all but abolished the concept of possessions), by having overcome almost al...
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The Culture
Fictional Universe
Created by
Iain Banks
British writer. Wrote "The Wasp factory", which was his first novel. Writes SF as "Iain M. Banks".
Characters
Species:
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- Consider Phlebas
- Matter
- Look to Windward
- Inversions
- Excession
- Feersum Endjinn
- Against a Dark Background
- Use of Weapons
- The State of the Art
- The Player of Games