Welcome to the Culture, the Galactic Civilization That Iain M. Banks Built

Writing by Chris on Monday, 11 of February , 2008 at 9:17 pm

I love the culture Universe, but sometimes the pacing can… drag.

Iain M. Banks: Welcome to the Culture, the Galactic Civilization That Iain M. Banks Built

To celebrate the release of Iain M. Banks’ novel Matter, we’ve put together this handy primer for you on the Culture, the pan-galactic civilization whose members and ex-members are the subjects of so many Banks novels, including Matter. Not only do we have a rundown of every single Culture novel, but we’ve also got some important excerpts from an obscure essay Banks wrote in 1994 about the ideas behind the Culture universe. Get ready to enter a world where ships are sentient, humans live for half a millennium, and living on a planet is probably the most backward thing you can do.

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