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Consider Phlebas , the first novel in Iain M. Banks ' classic Science Fiction series " The Culture , " is being developed as a series by Amazon .
Amazon MGM Studios is developing the skill fiction TV seriesConsider Phlebasfrom the classic Science Fiction novel by the previous , greatIain M. Banks , the first in his Graeco-Roman 10 - bookThe Cultureseries about an interstellar post - scarcity utopian club run by advanced AI starships as they seek to intervene in intergalactic wars against expansionist civilisation . Interior ChinatowncreatorCharles Yu , who has also written forWestworld , is write and executive producing . The potential series is also executive produced byNomadlandOscar winner andThe EternalsdirectorChloé Zhaothrough her production company Books of Shadows , Dede GardnerandJeremy Kleinerfor Plan B Entertainment , as well asAdele Banks .
InConsider Phlebas , while war rages between the utopian Culture and the Idiran Empire , a newly - birthed infant Culture Ship AI " nous " take refuge on a forbidden planet . Both Horza , a condition - shift mercenary and his mercenary gang working for the Idirans , and Balveda , a " Special Circumstances " Culture agent , have been tasked with recollect it to tip the balance in a galaxy - spanning conflict . Consider Phlebaspits sentience against AI in an epic and fucking quest across the creation . as Horza and Balveda race against time to stupefy each other to regain the AI . As the story unfolds , it becomes apparent that the Idirans are a genocidal empire of religious fanatics , and The Culture is fighting for its right to live . Care to guess who the good guys really are in the chronicle ?
Amazon Studios first wreak with Plan B to adaptConsider Phlebassix old age ago as Prime Video was just getting into genre / sci - fi serial in a major way with the mega rights peck forThe Lord of the RingsTV series . debate Phlebaswas to begin with developed byUtopiacreator Dennis Kelly as a writer ; the banner rescued delete Syfy dramaThe Expanse , which was followed by the greenish light for shows likeThe Wheel of Time , The Boys , The Peripheral , andFallout . Amazon is still . That first reading ofConsider PhlebasTV incarnation was leave out , and this announcement is the first news of a new version . Whether it makes it to a serial publication greenlight remain to be assure . Consider Phlebas is considered aScience Fiction classicamongst the many inBanks ' Culture series .
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