
The State of the Art, 4, The State of the Art Chapter 3
Get ready for a deep dive into the Paris and Berlin of the late 1970s, and relive the drunken holiday hookups of your youth.

Hosted by Sheridan and John · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 51 episodes
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Come explore the dizzying space opera of Iain M. Banks' culture novels. Buy a book and then read along with us as we explore them chapter by chapter!
Sheridan and John hosts The Culture Books podcast, a arts show with 51 episodes published.

Get ready for a deep dive into the Paris and Berlin of the late 1970s, and relive the drunken holiday hookups of your youth.

Sma takes a museum tour and we come to grips with the memory of our own past.

The triumphant return of Diziet Sma and we're taking the show to Planet Earth folks!

One of the earliest Culture works, we get to know a world eerily like that of BladeRunner and a Culture renegade in more trouble than they can handle.

At journey's end we can look back and discuss the costs of victory and defeat.

We find out who Zakalwe really is...

Possibly the most infamous chapter in science fiction history. Zakalwe receives a present.

Zakalwe has a breakdown followed by an even more terrible day, but we get the standout quote of the book.

Zakalwe takes the slow road to the stars, and almost doesn't make it.

Finally we get to see Zakalwe doing what he does best; soldiering.


Zakalwe ruins a lot of nice people's holidays like the total jerk he is.

Zakalwe takes us on a tour of life on a Culture GSV!

Zakalwe throws away his weapon, has a philosphical discussion, and fixes for a fight


Zakalwe gets in a lot of fights, but his love of the old plasma rifle finally pays off!

Zakalwe tries his hand at writing poetry in an idyllic rural setting, but it's not as nice as he'd hoped.

Zakalwe plays James Bond again, Diziet gets distracted, and our hero goes to an interesting party which he does not enjoy.

As a flashback from the worst day of Zakalwe's life we get the origin story!

Agent Zakalwe makes a big splash while trying to play the part of James Bond.
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