Culture Universe

The Culture universe is a science fiction franchise created by Iain M Banks, and takes its name from the interstellar civilisation that most of the stories are centred around, the Culture. Generally considered to be extremely hard to defeat due to a combination of absurdly fast (AI-controlled) ship reaction times, the ability to attack someone in the normal universe from the safety of hyperspace, and heavy firepower.

Books

• Consider Phlebas (1987)
• The Player of Games (1988)
• Use of Weapons (1990)
• The State of the Art (1991)
• Excession (1996)
• Inversions (1998)
• Look to Windward (2000)
• Matter (2008)

Factions

• Affront
• Azadians
• Changers
• Chelgrians
• The Culture
• Homomda
• Idirans
• Morthanveld
• Nariscene
• Oct
• The Sublimed