They're benevolent until they get seriously annoyed.
Werthead Send a noteboard - 10/04/2010 11:12:52 AM
One of the mistakes various races keep making is that the Culture, as a race of ultra-advanced hippies, are push-overs. Whenever war breaks out, however, the Culture Minds switch to tactics and warfare-based routines (not to mention converting their continent-sizes pleasure ships into battlecruisers in the bat of any eyelid) and annihilate every enemy they come into contact with. Even during peacetime the Minds maintain the Special Circumstances division to eliminate threats to the Culture before they can become too great.
The appendix to CONSIDER PHLEBAS, which shows how the Culture operates in wartime, is quite interesting.
The appendix to CONSIDER PHLEBAS, which shows how the Culture operates in wartime, is quite interesting.
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Iain [M] Banks – spaceships, AIs and alcohol.
08/04/2010 09:53:43 PM
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I have never read anything by Banks (though I fully intend to)
09/04/2010 10:28:38 AM
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yes, the machines in the Culture really are benevolent
09/04/2010 05:17:32 PM
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But he likes to make you wonder. Read Excession if you haven't already. *NM*
10/04/2010 09:23:13 AM
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Consider Phlebas is wonderful. It's the only Culture novel I've read so far, though.
10/04/2010 09:26:55 AM
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They're benevolent until they get seriously annoyed.
10/04/2010 11:12:52 AM
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