The Culture of "The Culture"

In a career that spanned over thirty years, Iain M. Banks becameone of the best-loved and most prolific writers in Britain, with his spaceopera series concerned with the pan-galactic utopian civilisation known as "theCulture" widely regarded as his most significant contribution to sciencefiction. The Culture of "The Culture"  focuses solely on this series, providing a comprehensive, thematic analysis ofBanks’s Culture stories from Consider Phlebas to The Hydrogen Sonata . It explores the de