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0 pointsautomatic61314y ago0 comments

I always imagine the board game as essentially being SM's Civilisation but really, really good in an indescribable way - with some card games inbetween.

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0_gravitas4y ago

I believe Banks himself said that he used to play Civ and took some inspiration from it

bduerst4y ago

Definitely for his later books, but Player of Games came out three years before the first Sid Meier's Civ game.

What cool is that Paradox's Stellaris, a civ-in-space game, definitely takes pages from Ian's Culture series.

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