Iain m banks culture series 10 books collection set includes titles in this set :- Consider Phlebas, The Player of Games, Use of Weapons, The State of the Art, Excession, Inversions, Look To Windward , Matter, Surface Detail, The Hydrogen Sonata. Description:- Consider Phlebas:A Culture Novel The war raged across the galaxy. Billions had died, billions more were doomed. Moons, planets, the very stars themselves, faced destruction, cold-blooded, brutal, and worse, random.The Player of Games The Culture - a human/machine symbiotic society - has thrown up many great Game Players, and one of the greatest is Gurgeh. Use of Weapons The drone known as Skaffen-Amtiskaw knew both of these people. The State of the Art The first ever collection of Iain M. Banks's short fiction, this volume includes the acclaimed novella, The State of the Art. Excession (Culture) Two and a half millennia ago, the artifact appeared in a remote corner of space, beside a trillion-year-old dying sun from a different universe.Inversions (Culture) In another palace across the mountains, in the service of the regicidal Protector General, the chief bodyguard, too, has his enemies. Look To Windward (Culture) The seventh Culture book from the awesome imagination of Iain M. Banks, a modern master of science fiction.It was one of the less glorious incidents of a long-ago war.Matter (Culture) In a world renowned within a galaxy full of wonders, a crime within a war. For one man it means a desperate flight, and a search for the one - maybe two - people who could clear his name.Surface Detail (Culture) Lededje Y'breq is one of the Intagliated, her marked body bearing witness to a family shame, her life belonging to a man whose lust for power is without limit. The Hydrogen Sonata (Culture) An ancient people, organised on military principles and yet almost perversely peaceful, the Gzilt helped set up the Culture ten thousand years earlier and were very nearly one of its founding societies.