Culture

Use of Weapons
Cheradenine is an ex-"special circumstance" agent who had been raised to eminence by a woman na...
Consider Phlebas
The war raged across the galaxy. Billions had died, billions more were doomed. Moons, planets,...
The Player of Games
The Culture — a human/machine symbiotic society — has thrown up many great Game Players, and on...
Use of Weapons
Cheradenine is an ex-“special circumstance” agent who had been raised to eminence by a woman na...
The State of The Art
The first ever collection of Iain Banks's short fiction, this volume includes the acclaimed nov...
Excession
Two and a half millennia ago, the artifact appeared in a remote corner of space, beside a trill...
Look to Windward
It was one of the less glorious incidents of the Idiran wars that led to the destruction of two...
Matter
The Culture is a far-future society of seemingly limitless resources and infinite technological...
Surface Detail
It begins in the realm of the Real, where matter still matters. It begins with a murder....
Inversions
Some years ago, rocks and fire fell from the sky and the old Empire fell with them. In the land...
The Hydrogen Sonata
The Scavenger species are circling. It is, truly, the End Days for the Gzilt civilization....