{"id":1759,"date":"2010-03-15T22:00:11","date_gmt":"2010-03-16T05:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/?p=1759"},"modified":"2010-03-15T22:00:11","modified_gmt":"2010-03-16T05:00:11","slug":"iain-m-banks-culture-novels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/iain-m-banks-culture-novels\/","title":{"rendered":"Iain M. Banks &#8220;Culture&#8221; Novels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Several years ago, my friend Kansu gave me the book <em>Excession<\/em> by Iain M. Banks. I very much enjoyed the book, and I ended up reading it a second time a while ago. While it was good the second time as well, I realized that the book was part of a larger series of books Banks has written about the Culture, a future human-machine post-scarcity space-faring race.<\/p>\n<p>Since re-reading <em>Excession<\/em>, I have purchased and read several more Culture books:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Use of Weapons<\/em> (Finished in Australia)<\/li>\n<li><em>The Player of Games<\/em> (just finished)<\/li>\n<li><em>Consider Phlebas<\/em> (about to start)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>All of the ones I have read I have very much enjoyed. I would suggest the series to anyone who enjoys Sci-Fi. I&#8217;m happy to share the books I&#8217;ve finished with friends, as long as I eventually get them back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several years ago, my friend Kansu gave me the book Excession by Iain M. Banks. I very much enjoyed the book, and I ended up reading it a second time a while ago. While it was good the second time as well, I realized that the book was part of a larger series of books [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[61,13],"class_list":["post-1759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-everything","tag-reading","tag-recommended"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1759"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1761,"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1759\/revisions\/1761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}