# Culture Novels

Iain M. Banks' Culture series

• Consider Phlebas: The first book published. A great, action-packed story, but it's told largely from a perspective outside of and hostile to the Culture.
• The Player of Games: A perfect introduction to what life in the Culture is like and how it interacts with other civilizations.

# The Culture Novels

• [ ] Consider Phlebas (1987)
• [ ] The Player of Games (1988)
• [ ] Use of Weapons (1990)
• [ ] The State of the Art (1991) (a collection including a novella and short stories)
• [ ] Excession (1996)
• [ ] Inversions (1998)
• [ ] Look to Windward (2000)
• [ ] Matter (2008)
• [ ] Surface Detail (2010)
• [ ] The Hydrogen Sonata (2012)