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That's true to an extent, but the comparison only goes so far. There's actually a somewhat closer comparison Cordwainer Smith's Instrumentality of Mankind series. I'd say that Mindjammer is roughly 1/3 Banks' Culture and 2/3 Smith's Instrumentality.