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11 books in seriesConsider Phlebas Publisher's Summary
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Book 1
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Consider Phlebas
- Culture Series, Book 1
- Written by: Iain M. Banks
- Narrated by: Peter Kenny
- Length: 16 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall190
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Performance165
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Story164
The war raged across the galaxy. Billions had died, billions more were doomed. Moons, planets, the very stars themselves, faced destruction - cold-blooded, brutal, and worse, random. The Idirans fought for their Faith; the Culture for its moral right to exist. Principles were at stake. There could be no surrender. Within the cosmic conflict, an individual crusade....
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Mis-fire
- By Austin Fusilier on 2018-09-13
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Consider Phlebas
- Culture Series, Book 1
- Narrated by: Peter Kenny
- Length: 16 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 2010-11-05
- Language: English
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Book 2
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The Player of Games
- Culture Series, Book 2
- Written by: Iain M. Banks
- Narrated by: Peter Kenny
- Length: 11 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall149
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Performance122
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Story122
The Culture - a human/machine symbiotic society - has thrown up many great Game Players, and one of the greatest is Gurgeh: Jernau Morat Gurgeh, The Player of Games, master of every board, computer, and strategy. Bored with success, Gurgeh travels to the Empire of Azad, cruel and incredibly wealthy, to try their fabulous game... a game so complex, so like life itself, that the winner becomes emperor.
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Amazing world building.
- By Cameron on 2025-04-01
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The Player of Games
- Culture Series, Book 2
- Narrated by: Peter Kenny
- Length: 11 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 2010-12-02
- Language: English
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Book 3
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Use of Weapons
- Culture Series, Book 3
- Written by: Iain M. Banks
- Narrated by: Peter Kenny
- Length: 13 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall93
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Performance82
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Story81
The man known as Cheradenine Zakalwe was one of Special Circumstances' foremost agents, changing the destiny of planets to suit the Culture through intrigue, dirty tricks or military action. The woman known as Diziet Sma had plucked him from obscurity and pushed him towards his present eminence, but despite all their dealings she did not know him as well as she thought. The drone known as Skaffen-Amtiskaw knew both of these people.
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Great Read
- By Jon Winebrenner on 2019-04-12
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Use of Weapons
- Culture Series, Book 3
- Narrated by: Peter Kenny
- Length: 13 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 2012-04-05
- Language: English
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Book 4
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The State of the Art
- Culture Series, Book 4
- Written by: Iain M. Banks
- Narrated by: Peter Kenny
- Length: 6 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall30
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Performance25
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Story25
The first ever collection of Iain Banks's short fiction, this volume includes the acclaimed novella, The State of the Art. This is a striking addition to the growing body of Culture lore, and adds definition and scale to the previous works by using the Earth of 1977 as contrast. The other stories in the collection range from science fiction to horror, dark-coated fantasy to morality tale. All bear the indefinable stamp of Iain Banks's staggering talent.
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Fun read!
- By Anonymous on 2023-05-28
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The State of the Art
- Culture Series, Book 4
- Narrated by: Peter Kenny
- Length: 6 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 2014-01-23
- Language: English
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Book 5
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Excession
- Culture Series, Book 5
- Written by: Iain M. Banks
- Narrated by: Peter Kenny
- Length: 15 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall89
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Performance79
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Story79
Two and a half millennia ago, the artifact appeared in a remote corner of space, beside a trillion-year-old dying sun from a different universe. It was a perfect black-body sphere, and it did nothing. Then it disappeared.
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Great fun.
- By Michael Palmer on 2018-09-19
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Excession
- Culture Series, Book 5
- Narrated by: Peter Kenny
- Length: 15 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 2013-03-07
- Language: English
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Excession
- Written by: Iain M. Banks
- Narrated by: Peter Kenny
- Length: 15 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall0
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Performance0
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The novels of Iain M. Banks have forever changed the face of modern science fiction. His Culture books combine breathtaking imagination with exceptional storytelling, and have secured his reputation as one of the most extraordinary and influential writers in the genre. "Banks is a phenomenon."...
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Excession
- Narrated by: Peter Kenny
- Length: 15 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 2026-01-20
- Language: English
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Book 6
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Inversions
- Culture Series, Book 6
- Written by: Iain M. Banks
- Narrated by: Peter Kenny
- Length: 11 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall47
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Performance42
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Story42
In the winter palace, the King's new physician has more enemies than she at first realises. But then she also has more remedies to hand than those who wish her ill can know about. In another palace across the mountains, in the service of the regicidal Protector General, the chief bodyguard, too, has his enemies. But his enemies strike more swiftly, and his means of combating them are more traditional. Spiralling round a central core of secrecy, deceit, love, and betrayal.
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One of the best Culture books!
- By Anonymous on 2023-07-03
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Inversions
- Culture Series, Book 6
- Narrated by: Peter Kenny
- Length: 11 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 2013-06-06
- Language: English
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Book 7
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Look to Windward
- Culture Series, Book 7
- Written by: Iain M. Banks
- Narrated by: Peter Kenny
- Length: 12 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall56
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Performance51
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Story51
It was one of the less glorious incidents of a long-ago war. It led to the destruction of two suns and the billions of lives they supported. Now, 800 years later, the light from the first of those ancient mistakes has reached the Culture Orbital, Masaq. The light from the second may not.
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Likely my favourite novel in the Culture series
- By Anonymous on 2024-10-17
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Look to Windward
- Culture Series, Book 7
- Narrated by: Peter Kenny
- Length: 12 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 2014-01-23
- Language: English
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Book 8
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Matter
- Written by: Iain M. Banks
- Narrated by: Toby Longworth
- Length: 17 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall50
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Performance45
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Story45
In a world renowned even within a galaxy full of wonders, a crime within a war. For one man it means a desperate flight, and a search for the one - maybe two - people who could clear his name. For his brother it means a life lived under constant threat of treachery and murder. And for their...
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Another fantastic Culture book
- By Shesophist on 2019-10-06
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Matter
- Narrated by: Toby Longworth
- Length: 17 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 2014-02-11
- Language: English
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Book 9
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Surface Detail
- Written by: Iain M. Banks
- Narrated by: Peter Kenny
- Length: 20 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall60
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Performance51
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Story51
It begins in the realm of the Real, where matter still matters. It begins with a murder. And it will not end until the Culture has gone to war with death itself. Lededje Y'breq is one of the Intagliated, her marked body bearing witness to a family shame, her life belonging to a man whose lust...
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Narration top notch, writing fantastic
- By Reader on 2023-04-09
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Surface Detail
- Narrated by: Peter Kenny
- Length: 20 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 2010-10-28
- Language: English
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Book 10
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The Hydrogen Sonata
- Written by: Iain M. Banks
- Narrated by: Peter Kenny
- Length: 17 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall60
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Performance50
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Story50
The New York Times bestselling Culture novel. . . The Scavenger species are circling. It is, truly, provably, the End Days for the Gzilt civilization. An ancient people, organized on military principles and yet almost perversely peaceful, the Gzilt helped set up the Culture ten thousand years...
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Great story
- By Amazon Customer on 2023-07-03
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The Hydrogen Sonata
- Narrated by: Peter Kenny
- Length: 17 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 2012-10-09
- Language: English
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