The Culture Series | The Culture Series

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Author: Iain Banks
First Published: 1987
Type of Work: Novels
Type of Plot: Science fiction—galactic empire
Time of Work: The fourteenth to twenty-first centuries and beyond
Setting: Various planets, including Earth, and the Lesser Magellanic Cloud
Genres: Long fiction, Science fiction
Subjects: Twentieth century, Nineteenth century, Future, Other worlds, Space ships, stations, or vehicles, Twenty-first century, Eighteenth century, Seventeenth century, Fifteenth century, Sixteenth century, Games, Fourteenth century
Locales: Space, Earth

The Culture series is composed of independent tales, though some of the same characters appear in two of the plots and there are several references to the Idirian war. The Contact Section of the Culture—a utopia of highly advanced technologies in which life is prolonged, all wants are fulfilled, and humanoids of all species live in peace—benevolently watches over emerging societies in the Milky Way and the Magellanic Clouds. Through Special Circumstances operatives, the Culture shapes those societies to its standards. The plots of the individual novels concern the...

The Culture Series | The Culture Series

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