A Few Notes On The Culture by Iain M Banks
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This article was posted to newsgroup rec.arts.sf.written on 10 Aug 1994 on behalf of Iain M Banks by Ken MacLeod.
by Iain M Banks Firstly, and most importantly: The Culture doesn’t really exist. It only exists in my mind and the minds of the people who’ve read about it. That having been made clear: The Culture is a group-civilisation formed from seven or eight humanoid species, space-living elements of which established a loose federation approximately nine thousand years ago. The ships and habitats which formed the original alliance required each others’ support to pursue and maintain their independence from the political power structures — principally those of mature nation-states and autonomous…
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