The Culture
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The Culture is a fictional interstellar post-scarcity society created by the Scottish writer Iain M. Banks and features in a number of his space opera novels and works of short fiction, collectively c
Artist's impression of an Orbital from the Culture setting.
Excession
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Excession is a 1996 science fiction novel by Scottish writer Iain M. Banks. It is the fifth in the Culture series, a series of ten science fiction novels which feature a post-scarcity, interstellar so
The Culture
…Blue" is described as a utility drug, as opposed to a sensory enhancer or a sexual stimulant, that helps in problem solving. "Quicken", mentioned in Excession, speeds up the user's neural processes so that time seems to slow down, allowing them to think and have mental conversation (for example with artificial…
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