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Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 128. Chapters: The Culture, Utopian novels, Utopian and dystopian fiction, Lost Horizon, The Dispossessed, Erewhon, Consider Phlebas, Childhood's End, Excession, Idiran-Culture War, Orbital, The Player of Games, Use of Weapons, The State of the Art, Look to Windward, Diziet Sma, Inversions, Walden Two, The City of the Sun, The Birds, Culture series, Vril, List of species, The Begum's Fortune, List of ships, News from Nowhere, Ship types, For Us, The Living: A Comedy of Customs, Looking Backward, Ecotopia, Mind, A Traveler from Altruria, A Crystal Age, Special Circumstances, Island, Herland, Moving the Mountain, Ionia, The Diothas, Islandia, The World a Department Store, Matter, Earth Revisited, List of sequels to Looking Backward, Surface Detail, Kazohinia, New Atlantis, The Old New Land, Sub-Coelum, Andromeda, The Naked Sun, GSV Sleeper Service, 2150 AD, When the Robbers Came to Cardamom Town, With Her in Ourland: Sequel to Herland, Men Like Gods, The Commonwealth of Oceana, Woman on the Edge of Time, The Gate to Women's Country, The Great Romance, Always Coming Home, Unveiling a Parallel, The Sublimed, Red Star, Equality, Voyage to Faremido, The Milltillionaire, Triton, Mizora, Kirinyaga, New Amazonia, Fire on the Mountain, Seven Days in New Crete, Aristopia, Young West, Arqtiq, Bora Horza Gobuchul, Three Hundred Years Hence, GCU Grey Area, A Prophetic Romance, The Blazing World, Contact, Erewhon Revisited, Spensonia, The Fifth Sacred Thing, Equality, or, A History of Lithconia, GSV Bora Horza Gobuchul, Through the Eye of the Needle, A Dream of John Ball, Sultana's Dream, The Year 4338: Petersburg Letters, Three Thousand Years, Only the Super-Rich Can Save Us!, A Planet Called Utopia, Intermere, List of Utopian novels, A Description of the Famous Kingdome of Macaria, 2894, Future Primitive: The New Ecotopias, Perosteck Balveda, Originator, The Golden Book of Springfield, Cala prawda o planecie Ksi. Excerpt: The Culture is a fictional interstellar anarchic, socialist, and utopian society created by the Scottish writer Iain M. Banks which features in a number of science fiction novels and works of short fiction by him. The Culture is characterized by being a post-scarcity society (meaning that its advanced technologies provide practically limitless material wealth and comforts for everyone for free, having all but abolished the concept of possessions), by having overcome almost all physical constraints on life (including disease and death) and by being an almost totally egalitarian, stable society without the use of any form of force or compulsion, except where necessary to protect others. Minds, powerful artificial intelligences, have an important role to play in this society. They administer this affluence for the benefit of all. As one commentator has said, The novels of the Culture cycle, therefore, mostly deal with people at the fringes of the Culture: diplomats, spies, or mercenaries, those who interact with other civilizations, and who do the Culture's dirty work in moving those societies closer to the Culture ideal, sometimes by force. In this fictional universe, the Culture exists concurrently with human society on Earth. The time frame for the published Culture stories is from roughly AD 1300 to AD 2800, with Earth being contacted around AD 2100, though the Culture had covertly visited the planet in the 1970s in The State of the Art. The Culture itself is described as having been created when several ...