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1991, c1987., General, Orbit Call No: SC Fic Ban Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: The war raged across the galaxy. The Idirans fought for their Faith; the Culture for its moral right to exist.
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1997., Orbit Call No: SC Fic Ban Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Culture novel.Summary Note: A novel on a group of planets ruled by artificial minds in competition with each other. Adventurers take advantage of this competition to seize a planet's spaceships and a war breaks out. By the author of The Player of Games.
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c2012., General, Orbit Call No: SC Fic Ban Edition: 1st U.S. ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Culture novel Volume: 10Summary Note: Suspected of involvement after the Regimental High Command is destroyed as they prepared to go to a new level of existence called Sublime, Lieutenant Commander Vyr Cossont must find a nine-thousand-year-old man to clear her name.
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2000., General, Pocket Books Call No: SC Fic Ban Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Science fiction. In the winter palace, the King's new physician has more enemies than she at first realises. In another palace across the mountains, the chief bodyguard of the Protector General also has his enemies.
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2008., Orbit Call No: SC Fic Ban Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: In a distant-future, highly advanced society of seemingly unlimited technological capability, a crime is committed within a war. For one brother 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 sister, it means returning to a place she'd thought abandoned forever. Only the sister is not what she once was; Djan Seriy Anaplian has become an agent of the Culture's Special Circumstances section, charged with high-level interference in civilizations throughout the greater galaxy. Concealing her new identity--and her particular set of abilities--might be a dangerous strategy. In the world to which Anaplian returns, nothing is quite as it seems; and determining the appropriate level of interference in someone else's war is never a simple matter.--From publisher description.
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2012, c1988., Adult, Orbit Call No: SC Fic Ban Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Culture novels Volume: 2Summary Note: Gurgeh, a champion game player, travels a hundred thousand light years to the Empire of Azad, where the winner of their complex game becomes emperor.
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1993, 1991, Adult, Orbit Call No: SC Fic Ban Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: The first ever collection of Iain Banks' 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' staggering talent.
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c2010., Adult, Orbit Call No: SC Fic Ban Edition: 1st U.S. ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Culture novelsSummary Note: When sex slave Lededje Y'breq is murdered by a politician on the planet Sichult, the artificial intelligence running one of the Culture's immense starships resurrects her so she can seek revenge. Meanwhile, the Culture is uneasily watching the conflict over whether to preserve virtual Hells for the souls of "sinners" or give them the release of death.
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2006, c1990., Orbit Call No: SC Fic Ban Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "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. It had once saved the woman's life by massacring her attackers in a particularly bloody manner. It believed the man to be a burnt-out case. But not even its machine intelligence could see the horrors in his past."--Publisher.