Information: - The Culture series is a science fiction series written by Scottish author Iain M. Banks. The stories center on the Culture, a utopian, post-scarcity space communist society of humanoids, aliens, and very advanced artificial intelligences living in anarchist habitats spread across the Milky Way galaxy. The main theme of the novels is the dilemmas that an idealistic hyperpower faces in dealing with civilizations that do not share its ideals, and whose behavior it sometimes finds repulsive. In some of the stories, action takes place mainly in non-Culture environments, and the leading characters are often on the fringes of (or non-members of) the Culture, sometimes acting as agents of Culture plans to civilize the galaxy. - A utopia is an imagined community or society that possesses highly desirable or nearly perfect qualities for its citizens. The opposite of a utopia is a dystopia. - The Culture is a fictional interstellar anarchist utopian society created by the Scottish writer Iain M. Banks, which features in a number of his space opera novels and works of short fiction, collectively called the Culture series. - Consider Phlebas , first published in 1987 , is a space opera novel by Scottish writer Iain M. Banks . Written after a 1984 draft , it is the first to feature the Culture . The novel revolves around the Idiran - Culture War , and Banks plays on that theme by presenting various microcosms of that conflict . Its protagonist Bora Horza Gobuchul is actually an enemy of the Culture . Consider Phlebas is Banks 's first published science fiction novel set in the Culture , and takes its title from a line in T. S. Eliot 's poem The Waste Land . A subsequent Culture novel , Look to Windward ( 2000 ) , whose title comes from the previous line of the same poem , can be considered a loose follow - up . What is the relationship between 'consider phlebas' and 'culture series'?
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