![]() ![]() ![]() The story centers on Horza, a rogue agent tasked by the Idirans with the impossible mission of recovering a missing Culture ‘Mind,’ an artificial intelligence many thousands of times smarter than any human-something that could hold the key to wiping out the Culture altogether. ![]() The 10-book series by Scottish writer Banks is set in a fictional interstellar utopian society, the Culture, which features humanoids, aliens, and advanced artificial intelligences living in Socialist habitats spread across the Milky Way galaxy.Ī kinetic, action-packed adventure on a huge canvas, Consider Phlebas draws upon the extraordinary world and mythology Banks created in the Culture, in which a highly advanced and progressive society ends up at war with the Idirans, a deeply religious, warlike race intent on dominating the entire galaxy. ![]()
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