Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p "A Gift from the Culture", published in 1987, is a short work of space opera, by the Scottish science fiction author Iain M. Banks. The story is an early venture into the "complex and unusual and very distant" setting of the Culture, which Banks would further develop through various of full length novels, stories, and his essay "A Few Notes on the Culture"."'A Gift from the Culture' is one of Banks' few short stories, and of them, one of the even fewer that give glimpses of the Culture. In this story written more than a decade before the real-world War on Terror, Banks' protagonist is coerced into committing mass murder, seeming a bit uncomfortably like Luke Skywalker as Mohammed Atta." (p. 298, TSOR)It was re-published in the Banks anthology, The State of the Art (1991, ISBN 0-356-19669-0).. }
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- A_Gift_from_the_Culture abstract ""A Gift from the Culture", published in 1987, is a short work of space opera, by the Scottish science fiction author Iain M. Banks. The story is an early venture into the "complex and unusual and very distant" setting of the Culture, which Banks would further develop through various of full length novels, stories, and his essay "A Few Notes on the Culture"."'A Gift from the Culture' is one of Banks' few short stories, and of them, one of the even fewer that give glimpses of the Culture. In this story written more than a decade before the real-world War on Terror, Banks' protagonist is coerced into committing mass murder, seeming a bit uncomfortably like Luke Skywalker as Mohammed Atta." (p. 298, TSOR)It was re-published in the Banks anthology, The State of the Art (1991, ISBN 0-356-19669-0).".