Forum: Iain M Banks

Hi! I really am complectely new to science fiction. I recently picked up a copy of the Algebraist, and then felt compelled to read on. I've also...

Personally, I think this book is great, its now number 2 on my favourite culture novel list (which I keep in an inconspicuous box under my bed so my...

Imagine you're impatiently drying your towel by waving it around one day and you're displaced aboard a passing GCU and made a Culture citizen on the...

In their latest issue (Summer 2009), The New Atlantis published an essay by Alan Jacobs on the Culture. For those not familiar with The New...

Surface Detail is the (current) title of the next Iain M Banks book. It is currently listed for publication in the UK on February 3rd 2011, and in...

Read this book about a year ago or so, kind of got it, kind of didn't. I got a tiny bit lost in the language (Bascule) and trying to keep myself...

Yo, name three (non Banks) sci-fi books, films, comics, you tube videos.... whatever, that you love and why. 1. Bladerunner. My favorite sci-fi...

...so what's the verdict folks? there's much to-ing and fro-ing online about whether it really constitutes the 'M' or not - is this book a must?

Especially for Mr Orange;) I found this for a starter http://www.matthewfrankland.co.uk/images/Idiran%20bw.jpg By one Matthew Frankland ...

Damien G Walter in The Guardian book blog asks Iain to finish the Culture saga he identifies in Consider Phlebas and Look to Windward ...

Iain M Banks almost there..."Transitions" shows 'Nag Hammadi' Life is not Life, Death is not Death,There are those who are superior to power/'The...

Hi, I'm new here, just finished re-reading Inversions, I'm sure this question has been answered before, but I couldn't find a thread for this in...

Uhhh, spoiler alert! I just finished reading Consider Phlebas, and I can't get over how much I don't care for Horza's actions starting when...

Orbit Books have unveiled the cover for the brand new Culture novel, Surface Detail, which will be published globally in October 2010: ...

I'm a long time Iain M. Banks fan that's been following his work since the mid 1990s. However, my hodgepodge collection of Iain M. Banks books...

In Player of Games, I noticed a line (quote) "Professor Boruelal was taking a half-year sabbatical." This may well be just one of those minor little...

Give these people the film rights NOW! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBPn_yIx_6k :cool:

A rather simple question, but I would like to know how people interpreted the book. Was is Gurgeh or Mawhrin-Skel or someone else or everyone? ...

I posted the following on Usenet a little while ago and either not many people were reading it or no-one is any more elightened than I am about the...

Here's how: http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2010/05/12/rampaging-cannonball-star-is-rampaging/#more-15463 This star is...