THE CULTURE SERIES: CONSIDER PHLEBAS, THE PLAYER OF GAMES, USE OF WEAPONS, THE STATE OF THE ART, EXCESSION, INVERSIONS, LOOK TO WINDWARD, MATTER, SURFACE DETAIL, THE HYDROGEN SONATA

by Iain M. Banks

$3,750 · Offered by Captain Ahab's Rare Books

First edition

London: Macmillan London Limited / Orbit, 1987-2012. First Editions. Complete set of the Scottish author's sprawling ten-volume Culture series. The books focus on the titular Culture, a utopian, post-scarcity space society that is humanoid in nature but did not originate on Earth. The stories revolve around how the Culture wields their enormous political and technological power to shape the evolution of societies across the

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