Forum: Iain M Banks

:D https://www.empireonline.com/movies/news/amazon-adapting-iain-m-banks-space-opera-consider-phlebas/

...my collection has now grown to, erm, two. https://vimeo.com/258709785 https://vimeo.com/184041325

General link: https://www.tor.com/series/the-culture-reread/ Introduction:...

Paul Cornell's adaptation of the Iain M Banks novella, The State of the Art, is being broadcast at 14:15 on Thursday, 5 March, 2009. Press release...

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

How has this taken this long? (Extra point if you can guess the combined theme) ROU You had hope once before remember GSV Fluffed my lines ...

For my next drawing I want to draw a GSV. From the inside a GSV looks like ... well , mostly like anything the mind wants it to look like. From...

The Culture is one of those things that if it doesn't exist , then it should be created ( in some other realm than the imagination). It happens...

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...

When I first read CP, it called my attention that one of the antagonist civilizations was called "the Culture". It's a strange choice for to name a...

What crap are Orbit trying to pull? Why are there two versions of hardback publication of The Hydrogen Sonata?! One version has a detailed appendix...

Elon Musk tweeted that he's naming two SpaceX droneships after Culture ships in Banks' The Player of Games. One drone ship will be called "Just Read...

Idirans because they appear in Consider Phlebas are the first in a line of aliens in the Cultureverse and they're quite hard to draw. It's mainly...

I don't know if it's been discussed here before, or how many of you are gamers, but I'm playing Destiny at the moment and it reminded me that Bungie...

This is quite fun: http://www.literature-map.com/iain+banks.html

I've decided to skip UoW (someone else can start that thread if they want), and move on to Excession. This is the book I consider the first fully...

Ok, this the oddly structured one which features a protagonist that's a cross between James Bond, Malcolm Reynolds, and Ed Gein.

http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2012-11/human-rights-watch-wants-international-ban-autonomous-killer-robots Robots and drones are...

As kind of a counterweight to the 'Best Action Scenes' thread. Which scenes do you find particularly moving? Personally I think the description...

Moving on from the recent Phlebus discussion thread I've just picked up The Player of Games from the library.