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Excession
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Excession

Автор: Banks Iain M.
Серия: Culture #5
Язык: английский
Год: 1996
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Two and a half millennia ago, the artifact appeared in a remote corner of space, beside a trillion-year old dying sun from a different univese. It was a perfect black-body sphere, and it did nothing. Then it disappeared. Now it is...
Inversions
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Inversions

Автор: Banks Iain M.
Серия: Culture #6
Язык: английский
Год: 1998
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Some years ago, rocks and fire fell from the sky and the old Empire fell with them. In the lands released from that crushing hegemony, a new world order is about to emerge. Two people in particular can see all this in a wider context.In...
The Player of Games
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The Player of Games

Автор: Banks Iain M.
Серия: Culture #2
Язык: английский
Год: 1988
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The Culture — a human/machine symbiotic society — has thrown up many great Game Players, and one of the greatest is Gurgeh. Jernau Morat Gurgeh. The Player of Games. Master of every board, computer and strategy.Bored with success, Gurgeh...
Use of Weapons
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Use of Weapons

Автор: Banks Iain M.
Серия: Culture #4
Язык: английский
Год: 1990
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Cheradenine is an ex-"special circumstance" agent who had been raised to eminence by a woman named Diziet. Skaffen-Amtskaw, the drone, had saved her life and it believes Cheradenine to be a burnt-out case. But not even its machine intelligence...
Matter
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Matter

Серия: Culture #8
Язык: английский
Год: 2008
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The Culture is a far-future society of seemingly limitless resources and infinite technological possibilities. Yet the Culture is far from perfect, and it is still subject to brutal wars, political upheaval and intrusions from beyond the edges of...