The Culture series or Culture cycle refers to a series of novels and short fiction written by Scottish author Iain Banks. The stories center around the Culture, a post-scarcity semi-anarchist utopia consisting of various humanoid races and managed by very advanced artificial intelligences. Their main theme is the dilemmas that an idealistic hyperpower faces in dealing with civilisations that do not share its ideals and whose behaviour it sometime...
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The Culture series or Culture cycle refers to a series of novels and short fiction written by Scottish author Iain Banks. The stories center around the Culture, a post-scarcity semi-anarchist utopia consisting of various humanoid races and managed by very advanced artificial intelligences. Their main theme is the dilemmas that an idealistic hyperpower faces in dealing with civilisations that do not share its ideals and whose behaviour it sometimes finds repulsive. In some of the stories action takes place mainly in non-Culture environments, and the leading characters are often on the fringes of, or non-members of, the Culture, usually acting as agents of Culture plans to civilise the galaxy.
The Culture is a post scarcity society formed by various humanoid races and artificial intelligences about 9,000 years ago. Since the majority of its biological population can have virtually anything they want without the need to work, there is little need for laws or enforcement, and the Culture...
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