2011年12月17日 · Totally uninteresting characters and worthless plot. Same feel as The Algebraist, another of Banks' SF non-Culture novels. Surface Detail: better than Matter in every aspect, appreciable but IMHO not as fun as the first few books. You may want to read Use of Weapons before this one. Inversions: a hidden Culture novel. The Culture is never ...

2016年5月17日 · Have been rereading the culture novels again, and I was wondering what the strongest thing a drone like Flere-Imsaho (Player of Games) or Skaffen-Amtiskaw (Use of Weapons) can go up against? In other words, a fully militarised SC drone who has no reservations about murdering a few meat bags.

2024年1月19日 · We're in Hellworld but I still want nice things so I rebooted my old story. Premise is the same: Execution will veer in new and exciting directions. As with the previous version, I'm not gonna dump a lot of info. Assumes you know Worm well and the Culture novels at least as much as the wiki...

2023年12月20日 · I know that the maximalist intepretation of its efficacy would make 40k itself stop working... yet Culture novels themselves contain examples of people who would dive headifrst into that shit for the kicks, and some 40k lore implies that Chaos is super effective against artificial intelligences.

2023年12月20日 · Most of the Culture novels deal with Special Circumstances, the somewhat controversial "organization" within Contact that does wetwork for them, and they're willing to do quite a bit of mean stuff. The main difference between them and say the Imperium of Man is that the mean stuff they do is almost always aimed with a laser focus on people they ...

2016年3月12日 · DAoH (40k) vs The Culture Thread starter majorgrunt; Start date Mar 12, 2016; Status

2009年3月5日 · The Culture is exactly the kind of society that destroys itself, according to 40k at least. On the other hand, Banks is much less willing to speculate about human nature. None of the Culture novels that I've read go so far as to outright suggest that the Culture is good or bad.

2005年6月26日 · Effectors manipulate energy in general and electromagnetism specifically. They can add or remove energy from an object (suck and blow modes): use of suck mode on a human can be fatal, even with an effector significantly less advanced than those the Culture uses; they can be used to read or alter brains and systems of many types, biological, electronic, optical, …

2023年2月20日 · 3rd dimension: The Culture novels call the three-dimensional universe "real space." 4th dimension: time. This is where the Culture novels placed the dimension of "hyperspace," which comprises "infraspace" and "ultraspace". The existence of "hyperspace" provides the ability of faster-than-light space travel and communications systems available ...

2006年7月3日 · The other non-Culture story, Feersum Endjinn, has some quirks (one of the main character's dialogue is written phonetically which can make it difficult to read). But I really liked the idea, and the last line is immortal. For Culture novels, I like …