Recent Celebrity Book Club Picks

Culture Series

10 primary works • 19 total works
These works of novels and short fiction center around the Culture, a post-scarcity semi-anarchist utopia consisting of humanoid races and managed by super-intelligent artificial intelligences. They do not need to be read in order. While there are some interconnections, they are minor.

Series also known as:
* Ciclo della Cultura [Italian]

Book 1

Consider Phlebas
by
3.85 · 91356 Ratings · 4977 Reviews · published 1987 · 85 editions
The war raged across the galaxy. Billions had died…

Shelve Consider Phlebas

    • Rate it:

    Book 2

    The Player of Games
    by
    4.28     · 72604 Ratings · 3382 Reviews · published 1988 · 75 editions
    The Culture - a humanoid/machine symbiotic society…

    Shelve The Player of Games

    • Rate it:

    Book 3

    Use of Weapons
    by
    4.17     · 47902 Ratings · 2241 Reviews · published 1990 · 64 editions
    Special Circumstances had always been the Contact …

    Shelve Use of Weapons

    • Rate it:

    Book 4

    The State of the Art
    by
    3.83     · 17366 Ratings · 770 Reviews · published 1991 · 37 editions
    The first ever collection of Iain Banks' short fic…

    Shelve The State of the Art

    • Rate it:

    Book 5

    Excession
    by
    4.20     · 31169 Ratings · 1360 Reviews · published 1996 · 34 editions
    The international sensation Iain M. Banks offers r…

    Shelve Excession

    • Rate it:

    Book 6

    Inversions
    by
    3.94     · 18317 Ratings · 748 Reviews · published 1998 · 38 editions
    On a backward world with six moons, an alert spy r…

    Shelve Inversions

    • Rate it:

    Book 7

    Look to Windward
    by
    4.22     · 27038 Ratings · 889 Reviews · published 2000 · 41 editions
    The Twin Novae battle had been one of the last of …

    Shelve Look to Windward

    • Rate it:

    Book 8

    Matter
    by
    4.10     · 27794 Ratings · 1157 Reviews · published 2008 · 45 editions
    In a world renowned within a galaxy full of wonder…

    Shelve Matter

    • Rate it:

    Book 9

    Surface Detail
    by
    4.26     · 28067 Ratings · 1231 Reviews · published 2010 · 33 editions
    It begins in the realm of the Real, where matter s…

    Shelve Surface Detail

    • Rate it:

    Book 10

    The Hydrogen Sonata
    by
    4.20     · 23653 Ratings · 1410 Reviews · published 2012 · 38 editions
    The Scavenger species are circling. It is, truly, …

    Shelve The Hydrogen Sonata

    • Rate it:

    Book 1-3

    The Culture: Consider Phlebas/Player of Games/Use of Weapons
    by
    4.52     · 491 Ratings · 12 Reviews · published 2012 · 2 editions
    Celebrating its 25th anniversary, the first three …

    Shelve The Culture: Consider Phlebas/Player of Games/Use of Weapons

    • Rate it:

    Book 2-3

    Das Kultur-Spiel: Das Spiel Azad / Einsatz der Waffen
    by
    4.44     · 36 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 2004 · 3 editions
    Zwei Kultur-Romane in einem Band

    Iain Banks, der Be…

    Shelve Das Kultur-Spiel: Das Spiel Azad / Einsatz der Waffen

    • Rate it:

    Book 3-4

    Выбор оружия. Последнее слово техники
    by
    3.59     · 17 Ratings · 6 Reviews · published 1989 · 3 editions
    Классический (и, по мнению многих, лучший) роман и…

    Shelve Выбор оружия. Последнее слово техники

    • Rate it:

    Book 1-8

    La Saga de la Cultura
    by
    4.67     · 6 Ratings · published 2014 · 1 edition
    Books 1-8.

    Shelve La Saga de la Cultura

    • Rate it:

    Book 1-4

    La Saga de la Cultura - 1
    by
    5.00     · 2 Ratings · 1 edition
    Contiene: Pensad en flebas, Eljugador, Última gene…

    Shelve La Saga de la Cultura - 1

    • Rate it:

    Book 5-8

    La Saga de la Cultura - 2
    by
    0.00     · 1 edition
    Contiene: Excesión, Inversiones, A Barlovento y Ma…

    Shelve La Saga de la Cultura - 2

    • Rate it:

    Book 9, 1 / 2

    Les Enfers virtuels 1
    by
    4.31     · 13 Ratings · published 2010 · 2 editions
    Les Enfers virtuels , ici divisé en deux tomes, es…

    Shelve Les Enfers virtuels 1

    • Rate it:

    Book 9, 2 / 2

    Les Enfers virtuels 2
    by
    4.08     · 12 Ratings · published 2010 · 2 editions
    Une esclave en quête de vengeance, un voyage à tra…

    Shelve Les Enfers virtuels 2

    • Rate it:

    Book 1-3

    Il ciclo della cultura. Prima trilogia
    by
    3.93     · 15 Ratings · 3 Reviews · 3 editions
    La Cultura. Una società ideale che si è sviluppata…

    Shelve Il ciclo della cultura. Prima trilogia

    • Rate it: