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* AnOfferYouCantRefuse: In ''A Gift From The Culture'' the main character is given the option of committing a terrorist act for a couple of mobsters in exchange for a complete forgiveness of his debts plus a hefty sum or be killed as an example for others.
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* AnOfferYouCantRefuse: In ''A Gift From The Culture'' the main character is given the option of committing a terrorist act for a couple of mobsters in exchange for a complete forgiveness of his debts plus a hefty sum or be killed as an example for others.
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* AnOfferYouCantRefuse: In ''A Gift
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* WhenTreesAttack: The PlantPerson protagonist of ''Odd Attachment'' does not take well to being shot.
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* WhenTreesAttack: The PlantPerson protagonist of ''Odd Attachment'' does not take well to being shot.shot.
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* ''Odd Attachment:'' A shepherd of a species of plant people plays a darkly humorous game of "loves me, loves me not"
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* ''Odd Attachment:'' A shepherd of a species of [[PlantPerson plant people people]] plays a darkly humorous game of "loves me, loves me not"
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* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: Explored in ''Descendant''. Since the suit is sentient, it could ditch the human to save himself. The human ponders if he would do the same if their roles were reversed.
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* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: Explored in ''Descendant''. Since the suit is sentient, it could ditch the human to save himself. The human ponders if he would do the same if their roles were reversed.reversed.
* WhenTreesAttack: The PlantPerson protagonist of ''Odd Attachment'' does not take well to being shot.
* WhenTreesAttack: The PlantPerson protagonist of ''Odd Attachment'' does not take well to being shot.
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* ShoutOut: Several in ''The State of the Art'', since the characters get familiar with Earth's pop culture.
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* BlackComedy: A hilarious moment in ''Cleaning Up'' is a general plummeting to his death.
** ''Odd Attachment'' is about a PlantPerson innocently tearing off a human's toes and fingers. The punchline at the end is him finding out one last "petal": [[spoiler: the penis.]]
** ''Odd Attachment'' is about a PlantPerson innocently tearing off a human's toes and fingers. The punchline at the end is him finding out one last "petal": [[spoiler: the penis.]]
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* BlackComedy: BlackComedy:
** A hilarious moment in ''Cleaning Up'' is a general plummeting to his death.
** ''Odd Attachment'' is about a PlantPerson innocently tearing off a human's toes and fingers. The punchline at the end is him finding out one last "petal": [[spoiler: thepenis.]]penis]].
** A hilarious moment in ''Cleaning Up'' is a general plummeting to his death.
** ''Odd Attachment'' is about a PlantPerson innocently tearing off a human's toes and fingers. The punchline at the end is him finding out one last "petal": [[spoiler: the
* MobileCity: "The Road of Skulls" features a pair of pilgrims trying to reach a city. The city is actually on huge wheels and is perpetually moving away from them, laying the road they're traveling on.
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* PlantPerson: The main character of ''Odd Attachment''
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* ''Road of Skulls:'' A drifter is napping a cart towards a faraway city on a road made of the skulls of TheEmpire's enemys-
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* ''Road of Skulls:'' A drifter is napping a cart towards a faraway city on a road made of the skulls of TheEmpire's enemys-enemies
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* ''Odd Attachment:'' A shepherd of a species of plant people plays a darkely humorous game of "loves me, loves me not"
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* ''Odd Attachment:'' A shepherd of a species of plant people plays a darkely darkly humorous game of "loves me, loves me not"
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* ''Cleaning Up:'' Strange artifacts start appearing inexplicabley around the world, which seem to be a technological gift to the receivers.
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* ''Cleaning Up:'' Strange artifacts start inexplicably appearing inexplicabley around the world, which seem to be a technological gift to the receivers.
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* ''The State of the Art:'' By far the longest piece, it's an account of Dizziet Sma's time as a Contact agent visiting Earth, and her relationship with another agent, who is deeply affected by our species.
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* ''The State of the Art:'' By far the longest piece, it's an account of Dizziet Diziet Sma's time as a Contact agent visiting Earth, and her relationship with another agent, who is deeply affected by our species.
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''The State of the Art'' is a short fiction collection by [[Creator/IainBanks Iain M. Banks]], which includes stories set in the universte of Literature/TheCulture. The collection includes the following stories.
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''The State of the Art'' is a short fiction collection by [[Creator/IainBanks Iain M. Banks]], which includes stories set in the universte universe of Literature/TheCulture. The collection includes the following stories.
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* AnOfferYouCantRefuse: In ''A Gift From The Culture'' the main character is given the option of commiting a terrorist act for a couple of mobsters in exchange for a complete forgiveness of his debsts plus a hefty sum or be killed as an example for others.
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* AnOfferYouCantRefuse: In ''A Gift From The Culture'' the main character is given the option of commiting committing a terrorist act for a couple of mobsters in exchange for a complete forgiveness of his debsts debts plus a hefty sum or be killed as an example for others.
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* DiscountLesbians: The sexuality if the protagonist in ''A Gift From The Culture'' is complex: He was born a heterosexual cisgender female, with no problem whatsoever about her identity as a woman. Since citizens of The Culture are able to switch genders at will, she tried being male expecting to be attracted to females, but the sexual orientation didn't change. While male, he decided to turn his back on The Culture and refuses to sitch to female not because he is happier as a male but because he refuses to put to use nearly every advantage his enhance biology provides, up to and including his ability to transition. While outside of The Culture he enters a relationship with a local male.
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* DiscountLesbians: The sexuality if the protagonist in ''A Gift From The Culture'' is complex: He was born a heterosexual cisgender female, with no problem whatsoever about her identity as a woman. Since citizens of The Culture are able to switch genders at will, she tried being male expecting to be attracted to females, but the sexual orientation didn't change. While male, he decided to turn his back on The Culture and refuses to sitch switch back to female not because he is happier as a male but because he refuses to put to use nearly every advantage his enhance biology provides, up to and including his ability to transition. While outside of The Culture he enters a relationship with a local male.
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** In ''Odd Attachment'' the alient just barely recognizes the astronaut as alive.
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** In ''Odd Attachment'' the alient alien just barely recognizes the astronaut as alive.
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* ButNotTooGay: The main character in ''A Gift From The Culture'' is in a homosexual relationship. However, he was born as female and was hetesosexual. She changed gender expecting to become a straight man, but he remaind attracted to males and refuses to change back due to his refusal to take advantage of his biological modifications by The Culture.
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* ButNotTooGay: DiscountLesbians: The main character sexuality if the protagonist in ''A Gift From The Culture'' is in a homosexual relationship. However, he complex: He was born a heterosexual cisgender female, with no problem whatsoever about her identity as female and was hetesosexual. She changed gender a woman. Since citizens of The Culture are able to switch genders at will, she tried being male expecting to become a straight man, but he remaind be attracted to males females, but the sexual orientation didn't change. While male, he decided to turn his back on The Culture and refuses to change back due sitch to his refusal female not because he is happier as a male but because he refuses to take put to use nearly every advantage of his biological modifications by enhance biology provides, up to and including his ability to transition. While outside of The Culture.Culture he enters a relationship with a local male.
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* MotorMouth: The unnamed companion in ''Road of Skulls''.
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* PlantPerson: The main character of ''Odd Attachment''
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* PlantPerson: The main character of ''Odd Attachment''Attachment''
* SanitySlippage: In ''Descendant'' the human starts going mad as the days and weeks go by. Funnily enough, a sign of this is that he ''stops'' hearing voices, specifically the voice of his sentient suit, who is his only companion.
* ShaggyDogStory: Played with in ''Descendant'', [[spoiler: the human dies, but the suit, who is sentient and therefore arguably alive as well, is rescued]].
* ShoutOut: Several in ''The State of the Art'', since the characters get familiar with Earth's pop culture.
* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: Explored in ''Descendant''. Since the suit is sentient, it could ditch the human to save himself. The human ponders if he would do the same if their roles were reversed.
* SanitySlippage: In ''Descendant'' the human starts going mad as the days and weeks go by. Funnily enough, a sign of this is that he ''stops'' hearing voices, specifically the voice of his sentient suit, who is his only companion.
* ShaggyDogStory: Played with in ''Descendant'', [[spoiler: the human dies, but the suit, who is sentient and therefore arguably alive as well, is rescued]].
* ShoutOut: Several in ''The State of the Art'', since the characters get familiar with Earth's pop culture.
* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: Explored in ''Descendant''. Since the suit is sentient, it could ditch the human to save himself. The human ponders if he would do the same if their roles were reversed.
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''The State of the Art'' is a short fiction collection by [[Creator/IainBanks Iain M. Banks]], which includes stories set in the universte of Literature/TheCulture. The collection includes the following stories.
* ''Road of Skulls:'' A drifter is napping a cart towards a faraway city on a road made of the skulls of TheEmpire's enemys-
*''A Gift from the Culture:'' An exile from the culture is forced to perform a terrorist act since the weapon required will only work with a Culture citizen
*''Odd Attachment:'' A shepherd of a species of plant people plays a darkely humorous game of "loves me, loves me not"
*''Descendant'' A soldier and his sentient suit walk through an inhospitable desert after crash landing.
*''Cleaning Up:'' Strange artifacts start appearing inexplicabley around the world, which seem to be a technological gift to the receivers.
*''Piece'' A professor relates some encounters where he discusses science and science fiction in contraposition to faith.
*''The State of the Art:'' By far the longest piece, it's an account of Dizziet Sma's time as a Contact agent visiting Earth, and her relationship with another agent, who is deeply affected by our species.
*''Scratch OR: The Present and Future of Species HS (sic) Considered as The Contents of a Contemporary Popular Record (qv). Report Abstract/Extract Version 4.2 Begins (after this break)''
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Th short stories contain examples of the following Tropes
*AnOfferYouCantRefuse: In ''A Gift From The Culture'' the main character is given the option of commiting a terrorist act for a couple of mobsters in exchange for a complete forgiveness of his debsts plus a hefty sum or be killed as an example for others.
*BlackComedy: A hilarious moment in ''Cleaning Up'' is a general plummeting to his death.
**''Odd Attachment'' is about a PlantPerson innocently tearing off a human's toes and fingers. The punchline at the end is him finding out one last "petal": [[spoiler: the penis.]]
*ButNotTooGay: The main character in ''A Gift From The Culture'' is in a homosexual relationship. However, he was born as female and was hetesosexual. She changed gender expecting to become a straight man, but he remaind attracted to males and refuses to change back due to his refusal to take advantage of his biological modifications by The Culture.
*HumansThroughAlienEyes:
**In ''Odd Attachment'' the alient just barely recognizes the astronaut as alive.
**One of the main themes in ''The State of the Art'' is how humans look to people from The Culture.
*Ironic Name: The ship in ''The State of the Art'' is called ''Arbitrary''. When confronted with a hard choice, it decides to stick to The Culture's principle of freedom instead of forcing a human to do what it believes would be best.
*NoEnding: ''A Gift From The Culture'' ends right after the main character [[spoiler: shoots down the ship]]. We never find out the consequences of this.
*PlantPerson: The main character of ''Odd Attachment''
* ''Road of Skulls:'' A drifter is napping a cart towards a faraway city on a road made of the skulls of TheEmpire's enemys-
*''A Gift from the Culture:'' An exile from the culture is forced to perform a terrorist act since the weapon required will only work with a Culture citizen
*''Odd Attachment:'' A shepherd of a species of plant people plays a darkely humorous game of "loves me, loves me not"
*''Descendant'' A soldier and his sentient suit walk through an inhospitable desert after crash landing.
*''Cleaning Up:'' Strange artifacts start appearing inexplicabley around the world, which seem to be a technological gift to the receivers.
*''Piece'' A professor relates some encounters where he discusses science and science fiction in contraposition to faith.
*''The State of the Art:'' By far the longest piece, it's an account of Dizziet Sma's time as a Contact agent visiting Earth, and her relationship with another agent, who is deeply affected by our species.
*''Scratch OR: The Present and Future of Species HS (sic) Considered as The Contents of a Contemporary Popular Record (qv). Report Abstract/Extract Version 4.2 Begins (after this break)''
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Th short stories contain examples of the following Tropes
*AnOfferYouCantRefuse: In ''A Gift From The Culture'' the main character is given the option of commiting a terrorist act for a couple of mobsters in exchange for a complete forgiveness of his debsts plus a hefty sum or be killed as an example for others.
*BlackComedy: A hilarious moment in ''Cleaning Up'' is a general plummeting to his death.
**''Odd Attachment'' is about a PlantPerson innocently tearing off a human's toes and fingers. The punchline at the end is him finding out one last "petal": [[spoiler: the penis.]]
*ButNotTooGay: The main character in ''A Gift From The Culture'' is in a homosexual relationship. However, he was born as female and was hetesosexual. She changed gender expecting to become a straight man, but he remaind attracted to males and refuses to change back due to his refusal to take advantage of his biological modifications by The Culture.
*HumansThroughAlienEyes:
**In ''Odd Attachment'' the alient just barely recognizes the astronaut as alive.
**One of the main themes in ''The State of the Art'' is how humans look to people from The Culture.
*Ironic Name: The ship in ''The State of the Art'' is called ''Arbitrary''. When confronted with a hard choice, it decides to stick to The Culture's principle of freedom instead of forcing a human to do what it believes would be best.
*NoEnding: ''A Gift From The Culture'' ends right after the main character [[spoiler: shoots down the ship]]. We never find out the consequences of this.
*PlantPerson: The main character of ''Odd Attachment''
