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Iain Banks

A lot of what the 'Culture' is about is a reaction to all the science fiction I was reading in my very early teens.

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Iain Banks is saying that his ideas for the Culture series were influenced by the science fiction books he read when he was young. His work responds to or builds on the themes and concepts he encountered during that early reading.

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