Canonical novel set
The Iain Banks estate's Culture reading list lists nine Culture novels, in publication order:
- Consider Phlebas
- The Player of Games
- Use of Weapons
- Excession
- Inversions
- Look to Windward
- Matter
- Surface Detail
- The Hydrogen Sonata
All nine have local text editions in local-corpus/ and are covered by the three reading files in this folder: early.md, middle.md, and late.md. synthesis.md is a compact cross-book reference for later design work.
The State of the Art is a short story collection that includes Culture fiction, according to the estate's description. It appears in the publisher's ten-book Culture series listing, but it is not a Culture novel. The local A Few Notes on the Culture is an essay, not a novel; it is being read separately into few-notes.md. Neither is in the nine-novel set.
Author's engineering reference
few-notes.md records a complete reading of Banks's explanatory essay, which gives the ring's approximate diameter as three million kilometres and its circumference as ten million kilometres. Its technical details and the novels' scenes are kept separate for later use.
Source repository
research-project/riso-windowseat/ was cloned from https://github.com/sevenevesai/riso-windowseat.git at commit a56187a48b0dffc42a79b01e442f7eab39c27e28 on 2026-09-23. Its README describes a collection of procedural risograph films and prints plus a reusable production kit.