Banks fan, and any new Culture novel is a cause for celebration.

So who's with me?Ĭulture meets Hitchhiker's Guide & Da Vinca Code I don't want to break any laws to be able to have this collection complete. I want to own a copy of these works honestly. So come on fans of these wonderful books, let's collectively cause enough of a ruckus to be noticed. There must be a solution here somewhere, someway, somehow. You can purchase all of Banks titles, you just have to live in Europe. Third: From what I can gather in my research, the reason these wonderful works are not on Audible is due to the estate not allowing them to leave the Europe market. It's already done, no need to wait for them to be narrated. Second: All of his Culture books are in audio format and narrated by Peter Kenny. What little we have if the Culture universe is all that there will be. There will never be anymore books by him. First: Sadly, Mr Banks is no longer with us. It seems that the final days of the Gzilt civilization are likely to prove its most perilous.įor those that have NOT taken the time to research this author or his works, here is my take on this series.

She must find the oldest person in the Culture, a man over nine thousand years old, who might have some idea what really happened all that time ago.

Aided only by an ancient, reconditioned android and a suspicious Culture avatar, Cossont must complete her last mission given to her by the High Command. Lieutenant Commander (reserve) Vyr Cossont appears to have been involved, and she is now wanted - dead, not alive. Now they've made the collective decision to follow the well-trodden path of millions of other civilizations they are going to Sublime, elevating themselves to a new and almost infinitely more rich and complex existence.Īmid preparations, though, the Regimental High Command is destroyed. It is, truly, provably, the End Days for the Gzilt civilization.Īn ancient people, organized on military principles and yet almost perversely peaceful, the Gzilt helped set up the Culture 10,000 years earlier and were very nearly one of its founding societies, deciding not to join only at the last moment.

The hydrogen sonata by iain m banks