A GSV built for combat on the eve of the Idiran-Culture War. After it was destroyed in battle, a recorded copy of its mind-state was embodied in a new Mind and incorporated into another …

The Culture is a fictional interstellar post-scarcity civilisation or society created by the Scottish writer Iain Banks and features in a number of his space opera novels and works of short …

Excession is a 1996 science fiction novel by Scottish writer Iain M. Banks. It is the fifth in the Culture series, a series of ten science fiction novels which feature a utopian interstellar society …

The Plate-class General Systems Vehicle (GSV) Sleeper Service was introduced in the Culture novel Excession by Iain M. Banks. The Sleeper Service features as a reclusive Eccentric …

<Definition goes here> Continent Plate Plains Range Ocean Equator System Sleeper Service Not Invented Here Death and Gravity Honest Mistake Ethics Gradient (Range class) Wisdom Like …

Largest GSV class mentioned in the books so far. Sent by the Culture to destroy Vavatch orbital. Pirate ship, one of the main settings of the book. Advance force invading the planet Sorpen to …

The Culture is a fictional interstellar anarchist, and utopian [1] society created by the ScottishwriterIain M. Banks which features in a number of science fiction novels and works of …

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The GSVs are fast and very large craft, measured in kilometres and inhabited by millions of people and machines. The idea behind them is that they represent the Culture, fully. All that …

Gsv genre: new releases and popular books, including The Fourth Education Revolution: How Artificial Intelligence is Changing the Face of Education by An...