How will Amazon fuck it up?

*ahem*
Fuck the Culture
Fuck Minds
Fuck Orbitals
Fuck Drones

ita already peaty fucked up form the start

>tfw my favorite culture book, the hydrogen sonata, is widely considered one of the worst
Sublimation is easily my favorite thing about that universe.

based Horza

Banks is a boring writer, I suspect the show will make changes to alter that.

he made a book about a fucking board game an interesting read

They cant really fuck this up. The books are VERY progressive. All Amazon has to do is stay true to the source material to be politically correct.

>I identify as conscious furniture.

Did anyone else side with the Iridians and think the culture is just the end of self determination and people are just reduced to pets?

Also I found the books pretty boring. Didnt read anymore. The characters are really flat. Doesn't matter that epic space shit is going on around them since they have no personalities.

Orson Scott Card did that. Hardly an indication of being an entertaining writer.

> Banks is a boring writer
Hahaha. No.

Why? Most of the books are self-contained.

>What's the point of a story where the good guy can't just punch the bad guy?

It's the least Culture-like novel which makes sense since it was the first. The pacing is a drag and the writing isn't as good as the rest. The shit eating cult was well .. shit.

However a TV series adaptation could actually work around all of that.

Use of weapons >>> everything else

prove me wrong

Nah, The Player of Games is the best.

t. First world problems
have sex

Want this to go well so season 3 can be Use of Weapons.

Player of Games will be hard to adapt visually. The game will have to be well defined enough to get the viewers invested in it. Sort of why Casino Royale fell flat for some audiences if they didn't understand poker.

> Player of Games will be hard to adapt visually.
I agree. It's the best book but one of the hardest to film. All the game strategies for example.

Being replaced through immigration and the yet to be seen consequences are indeed a first world problem.
White Americans are now a minority in the under 20 age group.

I expect it to lead to violence.

Easy
They'll put in a good ending

I always read these books, enjoy them, then completely forget the entire story and the characters. It's like it just doesn't stick in my mind.

I can remember worldwide metro tunnels, a pyramid made of mirrors, giant continent sized ships, the AIs are smart and OP as fuck, playing chess to survive then a giant wave of fire circles round the globe, some underwater thing with drug bowls, and some sort of virtual reality hell where the person is tormented by a giant bird thing? Fleeting memories of scenes but no recollection of the stories. Anyway I hope it's good but knowing Amazon they'll fuck it up.

They fucked it already because not adapting picrelated.

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By not casting this guy as Gurgeh.

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This should be the easiest one to adapt because it's a straight up adventure story. There's not really anything complicated to portray apart from the visual effects which will undoubtedly be garbage. Even if this series is somehow good I wouldn't hold your breath for any that come after.

They might deviate from the text so much that they actually build an interesting and engrossing story universe

I read one culture book (it was the player of Games). I didn't like it very much, it felt like a poor star trek ripoff.

Nice counter fag

He's dull as dishwater

>and then a bad thing happened but it was OK because a Mind came along in a giant spaceship with god powers and fixed everything

Which Culture book am I talking about j/k/ it's all of them

>player of Games
It was awsome.

Only read Wasp Factory from him. How good are his other books?

Mostly not great. Somehow he managed to build a cult-like following around them which might trick you into thinking they're good but don't believe it.

Have sex.

I'm sure a few people disagree with that statement.

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culture series as a whole is pretty shit, Strugatsky brothers and even star trek did it better
witha few standout exceptions like use of weapons and player of games

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It sucks to me that those are his early works and his best

who here /elench/?

and wasp factory is better than those

>genreshit
It's not possible to fuck up when you're at rock fucking bottom

Haven’t got to that one yet. Thanks

the wife read that one. she said it was fucking grim, but a good read.
Banks only wrote his regular fiction so he could get enough recognition to write the Culture series.

Has there been a legit attempt at adapting this one? The first two books are easily among the best sci-fi that has been written.

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>The shit eating cult
Exactly the point where I lost interest and gave up on the book.

that cover is terrible

I just want to see Use of Weapons made.
The bone chair will be like a red wedding moment.

>The first book
Ftfy

Agreed. Read the book recently and I have no idea what that is supposed to be depicting.

I thought the 2nd was a pretty satisfactory conclusion. 3rd is pretty much its own thing.

"No"

The Sphinx. But generally, none of the books in the series have very god covers.