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Is there some other Culture than the one I’m familiar with? The one in Banks’ novels isn’t like that at all.




They did it in book two, Player of Games. They destroyed the Empire of Azad because they considered it a distant ideological threat.

I never got the impression they thought Azad could ever be any sort of threat. They destroyed the power structure because it was horrifically abusive.



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