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22. BBC - Writing Scotland - Iain M Banks As iain M(enzies) banks, he has published several highly successful science fiction novels and space operas , and become something of a cult figure on the http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/arts/writingscotland/writers/iain_m_banks/

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23. A Few Notes On The Culture, By Iain M Banks This article was posted to newsgroup rec.arts.sf.written on 10 Aug 1994 on behalf of iain M banks by Ken MacLeod kenm@festival.ed.ac.uk. http://www.vavatch.co.uk/books/banks/cultnote.htm

Link to: Main page About Me Puzzle Book Reviews ... Links A FEW NOTES ON THE CULTURE by Iain M Banks FIRSTLY, AND MOST IMPORTANTLY: THE CULTURE DOESN'T REALLY EXIST. IT ONLY EXISTS IN MY MIND AND THE MINDS OF THE PEOPLE WHO'VE READ ABOUT IT. That having been made clear: The Culture is a group-civilisation formed from seven or eight humanoid species, space-living elements of which established a loose federation approximately nine thousand years ago. The ships and habitats which formed the original alliance required each others' support to pursue and maintain their independence from the political power structures - principally those of mature nation-states and autonomous commercial concerns - they had evolved from. The galaxy (our galaxy) in the Culture stories is a place long lived-in, and scattered with a variety of life-forms. In its vast and complicated history it has seen waves of empires, federations, colonisations, die-backs, wars, species-specific dark ages, renaissances, periods of mega-structure building and destruction, and whole ages of benign indifference and malign neglect. At the time of the Culture stories, there are perhaps a few dozen major space-faring civilisations, hundreds of minor ones, tens of thousands of species who might develop space-travel, and an uncountable number who have been there, done that, and have either gone into locatable but insular retreats to contemplate who-knows-what, or disappeared from the normal universe altogether to cultivate lives even less comprehensible.

24. West Karana » Read The Prologue To Iain M. Banks’ New Book, “Matter”. A new book by iain M banks is always something to celebrate. Humor, action, politics, joy and despair (but usually more of the latter than the former, http://westkarana.com/index.php/2008/01/15/read-the-prologue-to-iain-m-banks-new

25. Iain M. Banks Interview - Page 1 Of 4 iain.M.banks latest novel SF novel, Excession, was published in paperback in May. His new nonSF novel, A Song of Stone, was published in hardback in http://www.sffworld.com/interview/2p0.html

Home Literature Stories Movies ... Updated: Heath Ledger Dead at 28 Official sffworld Reviews War Machine by Andy Remic (01-24 - Book) Blood Rites by Jim Butcher (01-21 - Book) Matter by Iain M. Banks (01-21 - Book) Killswitch by Joel Shepherd (01-13 - Book) Author Iain M. Banks Homepage Interviews Interview (1997-06-01) Books Culture Consider Phlebas Excession Look To Windward Player of Games, The ... Inversions Other The Algebraist Inversions Feersum Endjinn Against a Dark Background ... The Wasp Factory News Iain M. Banks on UK Tour Site Index Home News Literature Authors A-Z ... Newsletters Interview Page 1 of 4 Interview with Iain M. Banks document.write("Be the first to submit a comment"); This Interview has been provided by Orbit , and is printed with their permission. Iain.M.Banks' latest novel SF novel, Excession , was published in paperback in May. His new non-SF novel, A Song of Stone , was published in hardback in August. In between publicity tours, he took time out to give us a unique insight into one man and his "M"... Your first novel, The Wasp Factory , was described by critics as both "the literary debut of the year" and "a work of unparalleled depravity". How did you feel about those reviews?

26. Kotisivu - Mika Huurre: Iain M. Banks: Culture Ship Names iain M. banks Culture Ship Names. (a bit old list - a mirror of http//lucid.cba.uiuc.edu/~rkeogh/banks/text/ships.html) http://www.saunalahti.fi/~mjhuur1/projects/banks/ships.html

Projektit A Few Notes ... Iain M. Banks - Culture Ship Names (a bit old list - a mirror of http://lucid.cba.uiuc.edu/~rkeogh/banks/text/ships.html) Consider Phlebas The Player of Games GCU Nervous Energy GCU Prosthetic Conscience GSV The Ends Of Invention [ex-Culture] GSV Eschatologist (temporary name) GSV Irregular Apocalyse GSV No More Mr Nice Guy GSV Determinist GSV Bora Horza Gobuchul LSV Profit Margin ROU Trade Surplus ROU Revisionist Clipper Screw Loose GCU Flexible Demeanour GCU Just Read The Instructions GCU Of Course I Still Love You GOU Limiting Factor GSV Cargo Cult GSV Little Rascal GSV So Much For Subtlety GSV Unfortunate Conflict Of Evidence GSV Youthful Indiscretion LOU Gunboat Diplomat dROU Zealot Superlifter Kiss My Ass Superlifter Prime Mover The State of the Art GSV Bad for Business GCU Arbitrary GCU Cantankerous GCU Only Slightly Bent GCU I Thought He Was With You GCU Space Monster GCU A Series Of Unlikely Explanations GCU Big Sexy Beast GCU Never Talk To Strangers GCU Funny, It Worked Last

27. Powell's Books - Look To Windward By Iain M Banks Table of Contents Prologue1 The Light of Ancient Mistakes2 Winter Storm3 Infra Dawn4 Scorched Ground Airsphere5 A Very Attractive System6 Resistance http://www.powells.com/cgi-bin/partner?partner_id=28585&cgi=product&isbn=0-7434-

28. Iain Banks iain banks at www.contemporarywriters.com iain banks was born in Dunfermline, Fife, in Scotland in 1954 and was educated at Stirling University where he http://www.contemporarywriters.com/authors/?p=auth12

29. Science Fiction Weekly Interview A restless experimenter, at home in a host of genres which he effortlessly hybridizes, he has, as iain M. banks, produced a stream of major SF novels. http://www.scifi.com/sfw/issue274/interview.html

Ads_kid=0;Ads_bid=0;Ads_xl=728;Ads_yl=90;Ads_xp='';Ads_yp='';Ads_xp1='';Ads_yp1='';Ads_opt=0;Ads_wrd='[KeyWord]';Ads_prf='[Profile]';Ads_par='';Ads_cnturl='';Ads_sec=0;Ads_channels=''; RECENT INTERVIEWS The cast and crew of Eight Legged Freaks The cast and crew of Reign of Fire ... Ian Watson Cultured futurist Iain M. Banks creates an ornate utopia By Nick Gevers ain Banks is one of Britain's most versatile and ambitious novelists, the recipient of an enviable combination of popular and critical acclaim. A restless experimenter, at home in a host of genres which he effortlessly hybridizes, he has, as Iain M. Banks, produced a stream of major SF novels. Pyrotechnic, action-filled, satiric, outlandish, deep and frivolous all at once, these bravura space operas and planetary romances juggle galactic scale, political argument and personal perspective with a revelatory energy rarely matched in speculative fiction. Banks' analyses are complex and at times heart-rending; the Culture's Contact Section and its Special Circumstances operatives, mirroring the CIA in disconcerting ways, are very far from infallible. Their adventures feature in Consider Phlebas The Player of Games The State of the Art Use of Weapons Excession Inversions (1998) and Look to Windward (2000). Two novels not concerning the Culture

30. Tadhg.com » Iain M. Banks Interview Sharon Jackson (then editor of Trinity’s Alternate magazine) and I interviewed iain M. banks in February 1997 in the lobby of the Royal Dublin Hotel at http://tadhg.com/wp/1997/02/28/iain-m-banks-interview/

31. Article: Culture Clash: Ambivalent Heroes And The Ambiguous Utopia In The Work O iain M. banks is one of the most noteworthy authors to appear on the SF scene in the last two decades. His eight SF novels and one story collection feature http://www.strangehorizons.com/2002/20020121/culture_clash.shtml

CONTENTS Art Gallery Articles Columns ... Forum Culture Clash: Ambivalent Heroes and the Ambiguous Utopia in the Work of Iain M. Banks By David Horwich 21 January 2002 [The Culture] could easily grow for ever, because it was not governed by natural limitations. Like a rogue cell, a cancer with no "off" switch in its genetic composition, the Culture would go on expanding for as long as it was allowed to. ( Consider Phlebas I ain M. Banks is one of the most noteworthy authors to appear on the SF scene in the last two decades. His eight SF novels and one story collection feature a fertile, fervid imagination and supple writing style. Most of Banks' SF work (he also publishes non-SF under the name Iain Banks) is set in the universe of the Culture, an unusual variation on the tropes of both galactic empire and utopia. Banks' Culture stories Consider Phlebas The Player of Games Use of Weapons The State of the Art ... Excession , and Look to Windward are set in different periods of Culture history, covering (so far) about an 800-year span of the Culture's millennia-long existence. By showing the Culture from a variety of perspectives from inside and outside, through characters who range from happily integrated Culture citizens to the Culture's direst enemies Banks raises a number of thought-provoking questions about the potential for the perfectibility of human society. What is the Culture?

32. Piaw's Blog: Review: The Algebraist, Iain M. Banks Review The Algebraist, iain M. banks. banks is not exactly a hard science fiction writer, even though his novels have a veneer of it. http://piaw.blogspot.com/2006/03/review-algebraist-iain-m-banks.html

@import url("http://www.blogger.com/css/blog_controls.css"); @import url("http://www.blogger.com/dyn-css/authorization.css?targetBlogID=4003618"); Piaw's Blog Sunday, March 26, 2006 Review: The Algebraist, Iain M. Banks Banks is not exactly a hard science fiction writer, even though his novels have a veneer of it. Typically, he leaves the hard science exposition really empty (unlike Stephen Baxter) and concentrates on the characters. In this book, however, he plays a joke on long time readers of his, and writes a book that is more mystery than science fiction or character exposition. The main plot revolves around Fassin, a delver , a member of a class of scholars who have been privileged to interact directly or through telemetry with the denizens of his local system's gas giant, creatures who call themselves Dwellers. The Dwellers are a really long-lived species, dating back several billion years, but seem to have dropped themselves out of interacting with other species that they call "The Quick". Several hundred years ago,Fassin accidentally discovered a piece of Dweller text that implies that the Dwellers have a secret wormhole network that permeates most star systems in the galaxy, and when word of that leaked out a war was started. Now Fassin must once again delve into the local gas giant and find the secret key to the wormhole network before invaders take over his home. The mystery to be solved by the reader is the nature of the wormhole network and what the key is. Clues are scattered throughout the novel, which has the structure of a repeated quest.

33. Titles By Iain M Banks - Little, Brown Book Group iain M banks. In a world renowned within a galaxy full of wonders, a crime within a war. iain M banks. It is 4034 AD. Humanity has made it to the stars. http://www.littlebrown.co.uk/Authors/B/40/Titles

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34. Asking The Wrong Questions: But within a few pages of iain M. banks Hugonominated The Algebraist, I was in love. After the long slog through hundreds of pages of George R.R. Martin s http://wrongquestions.blogspot.com/2005/12/algebraist-by-iain-m-banks.html

The Algebraist by Iain M. Banks skip to main skip to sidebar Asking the Wrong Questions Monday, December 19, 2005 The Algebraist by Iain M. Banks Fassin Taak, Chief Slow Seer in Waiting of the Sept Bantrabal, is seconded against his will to the Shrievaltry Ocula, on a special mission to delve into the Dweller society on the gas giant Nasquaron and try to locate the elusive Transform, key to the Dweller List. Possession of this list will allow Fassin's home system, Ulubis, to fight off the rapidly approaching E-5 Disconnect invasion fleet, led by the villainous Archimandrite Luseferous. Paragraphs like the one above are largely the reason why I don't tend to read a lot of space opera. There's often a sense within that subgenre that authors spend more time inventing outlandish names and titles (or, to be more charitable, outlining the institutions and organizations of their invented, far-future society) than they do coming up with compelling characters and stories. Along with cyberpunk, space opera tends to dump readers into the middle of the action and trust them to work out the various technologies, social rituals, and political relationships of the book's universe on their own. And although when done well this sort of immersion can be refreshing, a neat intellectual puzzle, I've come to a point in my life in which it mostly tires me. I want to read books that ask me to think about people, not books that force me to pass an intelligence test before I can even begin to care about their protagonists.

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36. The Algebraist By Iain M Banks - Reviews, Books - Independent.co.uk If the kind of science fiction dubbed widescreen baroque by Brian Aldiss has a reigning grandmaster, it s probably iain M banks. http://arts.independent.co.uk/books/reviews/article29732.ece

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37. Iain M. Banks: A Few Notes On … | Holy Shmoly! iain M. banks A Few Notes on the Culture ooh, excellent, I’ve read every Culture related book I can find and these notes are well worth reading for fans! http://ocaoimh.ie/2002/11/29/iain-m-banks-a-few/

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39. Banks, Iain M., Poster Illustrated By Wilson-Smith, Marcus.; Walking On Glass banks, iain M., Poster illustrated by WilsonSmith, Marcus. Walking on Glass. Macmillan London. 1985, Paper,. Very Good (Our Top is Fine)/NearFine (Fine is http://www.ilab.org/db/book1463_0080.html

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