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Just finished Player of Games and man, Banks really had to go out of his way to make the empire seem terrible. You've got the Culture on one had, which ironically annihilates everything that has anything to do with actual culture in the species it adopts, and on the other hand you have the Empire of Azad which appeals greatly to human nature and has its own culture, spirit, and dreams and in order to make it seem abominable the author had to throw in one or two scenes where torture and rape is televised. Honestly I hope in the subsequent books Banks continues to provide foils for the Culture, because rooting against them seems to be more entertaining.
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