The much older Homomda are slightly more advanced at the time of Consider Phlebas (this is, however, set several centuries before the other books, and Culture technology and martial power continue to advance in the interim) the Morthanveld have a much larger population and economy, but are hampered by a more restrictive attitude to the role of AI in their society. Īlthough the Culture has more advanced technology and a more powerful economy than the vast majority of known civilizations, it is only one of the "Involved" civilizations that take an active part in galactic affairs. Most of the planning and administration is done by Minds, very advanced AIs.
Its members live mainly in spaceships and other off-planet constructs, because its founders wished to avoid the centralised political and corporate power-structures that planet-based economies foster. It features a post-scarcity economy where technology is advanced to such a degree that all production is automated. Since the majority of its biological population can have almost anything they want without the need to work, there is little need for laws or enforcement, and the culture is described by Banks as space socialism. The Culture is a society formed by various humanoid species and artificial intelligences about 9,000 years before the events of novels in the series. Each novel is a self-contained story with new characters, although reference is occasionally made to the events of previous novels. In some of the stories action takes place mainly in non-Culture environments, and the leading characters are often on the fringes of (or non-members of) the Culture, sometimes acting as agents of Culture (knowing and unknowing) in its plans to civilize the galaxy. The main themes of the series are the dilemmas that an idealistic, more-advanced civilization faces in dealing with smaller, less-advanced civilizations that do not share its ideals, and whose behaviour it sometimes finds barbaric.
The stories centre on The Culture, a utopian, post-scarcity space society of humanoid aliens, and advanced superintelligent artificial intelligences living in artificial habitats spread across the Milky Way galaxy. Banks and released from 1987 through to 2012. The Culture series is a science fiction series written by Scottish author Iain M.
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