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)