The Culture: The Drawings

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Not explicitly a Culture novel, but recounts what appear to be the activities of a Special Circumstances agent and a Culture emigrant on a planet whose development is roughly equivalent to that of medieval Europe. The interwoven stories are told from the viewpoint of several of the locals. [14] Banks often uses "outsiders" as viewpoint characters, [34] and said that using an enemy of the Culture as the main character of Consider Phlebas, the first story in the series, enabled him to present a more rounded view of the Culture. [ citation needed] However, this character realises that his attempts to plan for anything that might conceivably happen on a mission are very similar to the way in which the Culture makes all its decisions, and by the end suspects he has chosen the wrong side. [6] Look to Windward uses three commentators on the Culture, a near-immortal Behemothaur, a member of the race plunged into civil war by a Culture intervention that went wrong, and the ambassador of a race at similar technological level to the Culture's. [20]

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Vint, Sherryl (2007), Bodies of Tomorrow, University of Toronto Press, ISBN 978-0-8020-9052-2 , retrieved 2021-08-05 . On an episode of Lex Fridman's podcast released on April 29, 2022, the artist Grimes said that Surface Detail of the Culture series is the greatest science fiction book ever written. [47]It features well thought-out ship schematics, very cool weaponry designs, brilliant world building sketches and, what surprised me most - a handwritten lexicon and pronunciation guide for the universal language of the Culture; Marian. Few of us have been exposed to a talent so manifest and of such extraordinary breadth' New York Review of Science Fiction Banks met his wife Annie in London, before the release of his first book. They married in Hawaii in 1992. However, he announced in early 2007 that, after 25 years together, they had separated. He lived most recently in North Queensferry, a town on the north side of the Firth of Forth near the Forth Bridge and the Forth Road Bridge. This is an incredibly well put-together collection of drawings, diagrams, notes and schematics from one of the all-time greats of Science Fiction and Space Opera. An episode in a full-scale war between the Culture and the Idirans, told mainly from the point of view of an operative of the Idiran Empire. [6]