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Kennedy organizes her selections into sections that reflect a child's world and frames each section with an introduction in her own words

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Consider Phlebas (Culture Series #1) Science_Gift_Guide Kennedy organizes her selections intoThe first book in Iain M. Banks's seminal science fiction series, The Culture. Consider Phlebas introduces readers to the utopian conglomeration of human and alien races that explores the nature of war, morality, and the limitless bounds of mankind's imagination. The war raged across the galaxy. Billions had died, billions more were doomed. Moons, planets, the very stars themselves, faced destruction, cold blooded, brutal, and worse, random. The