1 - Consider Phlebas Iain Banks
Culture [1]: From Library JournalIn the midst of a war between two galactic empires, a shapechanging agent of the Iridans undertakes a clandestine mission to a forbidden planet in search of an intelligent, fugitive machine whose actions could alter t...
2 - The Player of Games Iain Banks
Culture [2]: Amazon.com ReviewIn The Player of Games, Iain M. Banks presents a distant future that could almost be called the end of history. Humanity has filled the galaxy, and thanks to ultra-high technology everyone has everything they want, no on...
3 - The State of the Art Iain Banks
Culture [3]: From Publishers WeeklyAccompanied by a lengthy essay, "A Few Notes on the Culture" (1997), these seven arresting short stories and the disturbing novella that provides the title for Banks's latest SF collection all date from 1984–1987, t...
4 - Use of Weapons Iain Banks
Culture [4]: Review'There is now no British SF writer to whose work I look forward with greater keenness' The Times Product DescriptionThe man known as Cheradenine Zakalwe was one of Special Circumstances' foremost agents, changing the destiny of pla...
5 - Excession Iain Banks
Culture [5]: Amazon.com ReviewIt's not easy to disturb a mega-utopia as vast as the one Iain M. Banks has created in his popular Culture series, where life is devoted to fun and ultra-high-tech is de rigueur. But more than two millennia ago the appea...
6 - Inversions Iain Banks
Culture [6]: From Publishers WeeklyFirst published in the U.K. in 1998, Banks's latest novel steps back from the usual grand scale and ultra high-tech of his well-known "Culture" SF series (Excession, etc.) to the intrigue-ridden courts of a politica...
7 - Look to Windward Iain Banks
Culture [7]: From Publishers WeeklySet in Banks's far-future interstellar civilization known as the Culture, this highly literate novel from this celebrated British SF author (Inversions) centers on an act of revenge. The Culture is enormously rich a...
8 - Matter Iain Banks
Culture [8]: From Publishers WeeklyStarred Review. This magnificent eighth novel (after 2000's Look to Windward) of the Culture, an interstellar posthuman civilization of incredible wealth and technological sophistication, centers on three siblings: ...
9 - Surface Detail Iain Banks
Culture [9]: From Publishers WeeklyBanks's labyrinthine and devious ninth Culture space opera novel (after 2008's Matter) adeptly shifts perspective between vast concepts and individual passions. The blissfully disorganized, galaxy-spanning Culture h...
