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A Few Notes On The Culture, which Iain M Banks posted to rec.arts.sf.written on 10 Aug 1994 should be much higher up in this thread http://www.vavatch.co.uk/bo
by codeulike 3y ago
A Few Notes On The Culture, which Iain M Banks posted to rec.arts.sf.written on 10 Aug 1994 should be much higher up in this thread
http://www.vavatch.co.uk/books/banks/cultnote.htm http://www.vavatch.co.uk/books/banks/cultnote.htm
- rsynnott 3y ago> The Culture is a group-civilisation formed from seven or eight humanoid species, space-living elements of which established a loose federation approximately nine thousand years ago. The ships and habitats which formed the original alliance required each others' support to pursue and maintain their independence from the political power structures - principally those of mature nation-states and autonomous commercial concerns - they had evolved from. This was... kind of retconned out in Hydrogen Sonata, right? The formation of the Culture there was depicted as between nation-states, at least in the case of Gzilt.
- datameta 3y agoHmm... Are the Gzilt not simply one of the humanoid species? Or perhaps the Culture at the time of prospective Gzilt merger already contained the rest of the constituent groups?
- rsynnott 3y agoAs far as I remember, it's the Gzilt _government_ negotiating in the formation of the Culture, though, not a breakaway group as implied in the above.
- inhumantsar 3y agoI just finished rereading this and it's always framed as the civilization. For the gzilt it would have been the government but it's not necessarily the case for all others that joined.