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 ...

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 ...

"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 ...

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 working for the Idirans, and ...

The series is produced by Amazon MGM Studios. "While war rages between the utopian Culture and the Idiran Empire, a Culture Ship AI ‘Mind’ takes refuge on a forbidden planet," says Amazon’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 ...

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For the softly spoken Indu, the dislocation from family is a wrenching burden, quietly borne; for Vijay, ambitious but struggling to adapt to a culture he fails to comprehend, the frustrations of ...