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ISBN 0-333-44138-9.
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ISBN 0-333-47110-5.
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ISBN 0-356-19160-5.
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ISBN 1-85723-394-8.
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ISBN 978-1-841-494173.
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ISBN 978-0-316-123402.

"This popular series showcases an implicitly anarchist post-scarcity society, enabled by nanotechnology. Banks himself says, of the Culture, ’Essentially, the contention is that our currently dominant power systems cannot long survive in space; beyond a certain technological level a degree of anarchy is arguably inevitable and anyway preferable.’ [’A Few Notes on the Culture’]"
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