A Gift from the Culture
"A Gift from the Culture", published in 1987, is a short work of space opera, by the Scottish science fiction author Iain M. Banks. The story is an early venture into the "complex and unusual and very distant" setting of the Culture, which Banks would further develop through various of full length novels, stories, and his essay "A Few Notes on the Culture".
Culture Biosystems
The company was founded in 2010 by Lawrence A. Walmsley and Dr. Andreas Meiser. Since 2011, the company has partnered with University of South Florida and has been operating a pilot facility.
In 2013, the company received a grant from the state of Florida to increase the production of algae to one acre. Currently, its demonstration facility is in Southwest Florida.
The corporate office is located in New York.