EXCLUSIVE: Amazon MGM Studios is developing science fiction TV series Consider Phlebas. It is an adaptation of the novel of the same name by Iain M Banks, the first in the late Swedish author’s ...

Consider Phlebas drills down on a war between the Culture and the Idiran Empire, an expansionist empire dominated by religion. When a Culture Mind — a powerful AI — takes refuge on a distant ...

"Consider Phlebas" by Iain M. Banks cover art: Orbit Books In Consider Phlebas, while war rages between the utopian Culture and the Idiran Empire, a newly-birthed infant Culture Ship AI "Mind ...

The first book, Consider Phlebas, is about the Culture’s war with the Idiran Empire — a conflict that many of the other books are concerned with as well. While the book is about the Culture ...

In Consider Phlebas, while war rages between the utopian Culture and the Idiran Empire, a Culture Ship AI “Mind” takes refuge on a forbidden planet. Both Horza, a shape-shifting mercenary ...