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The Culture is a society formed by various humanoid species and artificial intelligences about 9,000 years before the events of novels in the series. Since the majority of its biological population can have almost anything they want without the need to work, there is little need for laws or enforcement, and the culture is described by Banks as space socialism.
The Culture is a fictional interstellar post-scarcity civilisation or society created by the Scottish writer Iain Banks and features in a number of his space opera novels and works of short fiction, collectively called the Culture series. In the series, the Culture is composed primarily of sentient beings of the humanoid alien variety ...
Excession is a 1996 science fiction novel by Scottish writer Iain M. Banks.It is the fifth in the Culture series, a series of ten science fiction novels which feature a utopian interstellar society called the Culture.
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Consider Phlebas, first published in 1987, is a space opera novel by Scottish writer Iain M. Banks.It is the first in a series of novels about an interstellar post-scarcity society called the Culture.
The English is a revisionist Western television miniseries written and directed by Hugo Blick, and produced by the BBC and Amazon Prime. Starring Emily Blunt and Chaske Spencer , it follows an Englishwoman who travels to the American West in 1890 to seek revenge on the man she blames for the death of her son.
His first published science fiction book, Consider Phlebas, emerged in 1987 and was the first of several in the acclaimed Culture series. Banks cited Robert A. Heinlein, Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke, Brian Aldiss, M. John Harrison and Dan Simmons as influences. [16] The Crow Road, published in 1992, was adapted as a BBC television series. [17]
The Culture Show is a British magazine programme about books, art, film, architecture, music, visual fashion and the performing arts. The show was broadcast weekly on BBC Two between 2004 and 2015. Early history