21. Iain M. Banks: A Few Notes On The Culture by. iain M banks. Html markup by Stefan Kruger. With best wishes for the future,.iain M banks. Copyright 1994 iain M banks Commercial use only by permission. http://www.cs.bris.ac.uk/~stefan/culture.html

A Few Notes on the Culture by Iain M Banks [Html mark-up by Stefan Kruger] Firstly, and most importantly: the Culture doesn't really exist. It's only a story. 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.

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24. SS > SF > Book Reviews > Iain M. Banks Susan Stepney's Home Page SF reviews index iain M. banks. Novels/Collections reviews. iain M. banks. Consider Phlebas. Orbit. 1987. http://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/~susan/sf/books/b/banks.htm

home SF book reviews Iain M. Banks Novels/collections Short fiction Other Search Web for Iain M. Banks Google search Alta Vista search Novels/Collections Culture Consider Phlebas The Player of Games Use of Weapons The State of the Art Against a Dark Background Feersum Endjinn Excession Inversions Look to Windward Short fiction "Odd Attachment". 1987. In The State of the Art "A Gift from the Culture". 1987. In The State of the Art "Cleaning Up". 1987. In The State of the Art "Scratch". 1987. In The State of the Art "Road of Skulls". 1988. In The State of the Art "Piece". 1989. In The State of the Art "The State of the Art". 1989. In The State of the Art "Descendant". 1991. In The State of the Art Other information A Few Notes on the Culture Taking the Fantastic out of Fiction panel, 1998 SF elements: super-rich anarchistic culture, superior artificial intelligences, mega-large artificial environments Iain M. Banks (note the 'M' - Iain Banks may be the same person , but he's not the same author ) writes about The Culture , a super-rich, super-advanced anarchic galactic civilisation of the future. Nearly everything is legal, everyone is fabulously wealthy and powerful, but not many seem to be very happy.

25. Ex Libris Archives: Iain M. Banks iain M. banks. A little culture Home Ex Libris Authors iain M. banksCopyright © 2003, by William H. Duquette. All rights reserved. http://www.wjduquette.com/authors/imbanks.html

Home Ex Libris Authors : Iain M. Banks Iain M. Banks A little culture Have you seen our weblog or our monthly book review? Banks leads something of a double life. Under the name Iain M. Banks he writes the best science fiction I've read in the last few years, while under the name Iain Banks he writes more general fiction. I hesitate to call his general work mainstream, as it's generally filled with the bizarre and perverse. I've read several of his "Iain Banks", not all of which have been to my taste. However, I've enjoyed the work of Iain M. Banks considerably. Most of Banks' science fiction takes place in the context of the Culture, an ancient space-faring civilization based on equality, non-violence, abundant robotic labor, super-intelligent artificial minds, and a desire to have as much fun as possible. The Culture must sometimes deal with other civilizations, however, and this task is given to the Culture's Contact group (Normal members of the Culture find Contact rather distasteful). And then, for those special, more dangerous contacts, there is Contact's Special Circumstances section.... The Culture novels include Excession The Player of Games Consider Phlebas Use of Weapons , and The State of the Art The Player of Games is a good starting point, as is

26. Authors B Authors B. banks, iain Wasp Factory, The. banks, iain M The Culture Againsta Dark Background Consider Phlebas Player of Games Use of Weapons. http://www.scwu.com/bookreviews/a/B.shtml

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27. Science Fiction Weekly Interview Cultured futurist iain M. banks creates an ornate utopia. By Nick Geversain banks is one of Britain's most versatile and ambitious http://www.scifi.com/sfw/issue274/interview.html

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

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US sales in association with: UK sales in association with: Canadian sales in association with: Second hand sales in association with: all of Catharton just Authors Catharton Authors B : Banks, Iain Iain Menzies Banks 16th February 1954 - Bored? Meet people at Café Catharton Websites: TheCulture.org Spike Magazine: Getting Used To Being God the interesting times gang Iain Banks [geocities.com] Message Boards: alt.books.iain-banks alt.books.iain-banks (via Google Groups) Mailing Lists: TheCulture.org Banks Books Chat Rooms: Banks Books Can't find what you want here? Try searching Google for Iain Banks List of Works: The Wasp Factory find in US find in UK find second hand Walking On Glass find in US find in UK find second hand The Bridge find in US find in UK find second hand Espedair Street find in US find in UK find second hand Consider Phlebas (1987) (as Iain M. Banks) find in US find in UK find second hand The Player Of Games (1988) (as Iain M. Banks) find in US find in UK find second hand Canal Dreams find in US find in UK find second hand Use Of Weapons (1990) (as Iain M. Banks)

29. Iain M Banks Discussion Feersum Endjinn by banks, iain M. Released 07/1995. Excession by banks,iain M. Released 03/1998. Inversions by banks, iain M. Released 05/2001. http://www.gnooks.com/discussion/iain m banks.html

gnod web music books ... movies Search the Net Look to Windward by Iain M. Banks Released 10/2002 Against a Dark Background by Banks, Iain M. Released 08/1993 Feersum Endjinn by Banks, Iain M. Released 07/1995 Excession by Banks, Iain M. Released 03/1998 Use of Weapons (Bantam Spectra Book) by Banks, Iain M. Released 04/1992 The Bridge by Banks, Iain M. Released 02/1997 A SONG OF STONE: A Novel by Banks, Iain Released 09/1999 The Player of Games by Banks, Iain M. Released 02/1997 The Player of Games by Banks, Iain M. Released 11/1990 Whit, or Isis Amongst the Unsaved by Banks, Iain M. Released 01/1995 Feersum Endjinn by Banks, Iain M. Released 08/1996 A SONG OF STONE : A NOVEL by Banks, Iain Released 09/1998 State of the Art by Banks, Iain M. Released 06/1989 Inversions by Banks, Iain M. Released 01/1998 The Crow Road by Stewart, Ewan Released 08/1999 Discussion: iain m banks Your name: Comment about iain m banks: I have accepted the Discussion Guidelines

30. Iain Banks Discussion Excession by banks, iain M. Released 03/1998. Feersum Endjinn by banks,iain M. Released 07/1995. Inversions by banks, iain M. Released 05/2001. http://www.gnooks.com/discussion/iain banks.html

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31. DALnetizen - Book Review - Excession By Iain M Banks Excession iain M banks banks is, without a doubt, one of the most awe-inspiringwriters to have emerged on to the literary scene in the last 20 years. http://zine.dal.net/previousissues/issue13/editorial-pen-bookreview.php

The official ezine of the DALnet IRC Network March, 2002 Issue. Letter from the Editor DALnet People User Interview - Aries1 IRCop Interview - Fuggs ... Feedback Past Issues Past Issues Excession - Iain M Banks Banks is, without a doubt, one of the most awe-inspiring writers to have emerged on to the literary scene in the last 20 years. Adroitly straggling the fence between two great genres, he alternates between publishing delightfully odd fiction as Iain Banks and frighteningly grand science fiction as Iain M Banks. Excession is another romp into the world of his future civilisation, the Culture. The Culture is a pan-galactic society overseen by the benign paternal efforts of vast artificial intelligences called Minds. Guardianship by these Minds has ensured that humankind has rocketed beyond any problems of scarcity and disease and emerged into a hedonistic age where they can attain any mood they wish via the use of internal ‘drug glands’, never have to work, can change appearance or gender and enjoy an average lifespan of 400 years. This perfect, if rather uneventful, existence is offset by the antics of some rather less ‘enlightened’ species in the galaxy such as the Affront. This race of tentacledÜber-Klingons are highly aggressive party animals who view the Culture as a bunch of spineless do-gooders who they’d love to get an advantage over given half a chance. Into this background appears an ‘Out of Context’ problem, the Excession. An artefact billions of years old and of immeasurable power. It was last seen in a little used corner of space when a star mysteriously vanished, and now it has returned setting off alarm bells amongst the great ship Minds as well as thoughts of avarice from the Affront. The Culture’s aim is to try and make contact with this black body sphere, the Affront simply want to rape any technological knowledge they can to give them a power advantage in the galaxy.

32. Sflib - Lesenswerte Science Fiction: Iain M. Banks Translate this page iain M. banks. banks, iain M. (1990) Use of Weapons. London Orbit 1992. beiamazon.de bestellen. banks, iain M. (1995) Feersum Endjinn. London Orbit. http://www.westermayer.de/till/sflib/banks.html

IAIN M. BANKS Banks, Iain M. (1990): Use of Weapons. London: Orbit 1992 Banks, Iain M. (1995): Feersum Endjinn. London: Orbit [orig. 1994] Banks, Iain M. (1996): Excession. London: Orbit 1997 Banks, Iain M. (1998): Inversions. London: Orbit. Banks, Iain M. (2001): Look to Windward. London: Orbit. (orig. 2000) [engl. Orig.: Against A Dark Background, 1993] TILL WESTERMAYER

33. Iain M Banks Postviews.EditThisPage.Com The Erratic SF/F Reviews Site, iain M banks. Excession.Inversions. Against A Dark Background. The Front Page Book Reviews (by title). http://postviews.editthispage.com/books/byAuthor/Banks_Iain_M/

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34. Iain Banks Bibliography iain banks Scotland (1954 ) aka iain M banks. Search Authors. Search Books. Collections,Top. The State of the Art (1989) (writing as iain M banks). http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/authors/Iain_Banks.htm

dwAuthorName = "Iain Banks"; dwBookTitle = ""; Fantastic Fiction Authors B Home ... Years Iain Banks Scotland aka Iain M Banks Search Authors Search Books About Iain Banks Top Iain Banks came to widespread and controversial acclaim with the publication of his first novel, THE WASP FACTORY, in 1984. However, it was his 1987 novel CONSIDER PHLEBAS which introduced his remarkable talent to the SF community, and also saw the addition of the 'M' to his name - an addition which remains a distinguishing feature of his SF work. He has since written a further 5 SF novels, and a collection of SF short stories, THE STATE OF THE ART, all published by Orbit. Described by William Gibson as 'a phenomenon ... wildly successful, fearlessly creative', he was acknowledged as one of the Best of Young British Writers in 1993, and lives in Fife, Scotland. Series Top Culture (writing as Iain M Banks) Consider Phlebas The Player of Games The State of the Art Use of Weapons ... Look to Windward Novels Top The Wasp Factory Walking on Glass The Bridge ... Against a Dark Background (writing as Iain M Banks) Complicity Feersum Endjinn (writing as Iain M Banks) Whit A Song of Stone The Business Dead Air Collections Top The State of the Art (writing as Iain M Banks) Three Novels of Iain Banks: Whit, The Crow Road and The Wasp Factory

35. Banks, Iain M.: La Guerra Di Zakalwe. Translate this page Vota il miglior videogioco di tutti i tempi. banks, iain M. La guerra diZakalwe. La guerra di Zakalwe / iain M. banks. - Milano Nord, 1991. http://www.fantascienza.com/edf/recensioni/banks-guerra.html

Banks, Iain M.: La guerra di Zakalwe. La guerra di Zakalwe / Iain M. Banks. - Milano: Nord, 1991. - ( Cosmo Argento , 223). - P. 389, cm. 20. - L. 12.000. - Titolo originale: Use of Weapons (1990); traduzione di Gianluigi Zuddas. Gli autori inglesi di fantascienza, dicono gli americani, sono pallosi. Cerebrali. Pessimisti. Non riescono a scrivere vera avventura. La guerra di Zakalwe La mente di Shar Il piatto forte dei libri di Banks, comunque, è la descrizione della Cultura, spesso solo per accenni od attraverso la prospettiva dei suoi nemici: una civiltà totalmente tecnologica, governata da macchine intelligenti, che si basa soprattutto su astronavi ed orbitali capaci di ospitare milioni di persone per volta all'interno di un panorama naturale ed agricolo incontaminato. Grazie alle risorse illimitate messe a disposizione dalla tecnologia, la Cultura è anarchica, comunista e pacifista, non conosce il concetto di "organizzazione statale" o quello di "denaro", ed i suoi abitanti, oltre ad essere particolarmente felici e realizzati, sono pure immortali - anche se di solito regolano il loro sviluppo in modo da vivere solo per qualche secolo. Tutt'attorno, però, la galassia vive ancora in uno stadio relativamente primitivo, e piuttosto familiare: "Sto parlando dei massacri, Etnarca. I treni della morte, ricorda? I treni dove i viaggiatori scoprono che i finestrini sono sigillati". La Cultura, lentamente, cerca di interferire nello sviluppo storico, smussando gli angoli senza sconvolgere le civiltà che incontra - ma ogni tanto qualcuno degli agenti del Contatto rischia di andar di fuori, e tenta di agire in modo ben più incisivo... come Cheradenine Zakalwe all'inizio del libro, dove lo incontriamo in piena sindrome di Kurtz.

36. Banks, Iain M.: L'altro Universo http://www.fantascienza.com/edf/recensioni/banks-altro.html

Banks, Iain M.: L'altro universo Iain M. Banks L'altro universo Milano: Nord, 1997; pp. 476, L. 26.000. Ed. or. Excession (1996); trad. di Anna F. Dal Dan d'antan L'altrouniverso La mente di Shar La guerra di Zakalwe , tuttitradotti dalla Nord) risulta comunque una fantascienza diversa. Fabio Gadducci e Mirko Tavosanis [recensione pubblicata su Avvenimenti del 10 settembre 1997]

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38. Iain M. Banks Books (book Reviews) iain M. banks. Reviews. Consider Phlebas the first Culture novel- elegant and intelligent space opera; The State of the Art - short http://dannyreviews.com/a/Iain_M._Banks.html

Danny Yee's Book Reviews Subjects Titles Authors ... Latest Iain M. Banks Reviews Consider Phlebas - the first Culture novel - elegant and intelligent space opera The State of the Art - short science fiction Use of Weapons Notes Iain M. Banks' other science fiction works include Excession Inversions Feersum Endjinn Against a Dark Background , and Look to Windward . He has also published non-sf as Iain Banks, but I haven't read any of it. Subjects Titles Authors Best Books ... Book Reviews by Danny Yee

39. Consider Phlebas (Iain Banks) Consider Phlebas. iain M. banks. Futura 1988 T Consider Phlebas %A banks, iain M.%I Futura %C London %D 1988 %O paperback %G ISBN 07088-3707-7 %P 471pp %Z the http://dannyreviews.com/h/Consider_Phlebas.html

Danny Yee's Book Reviews Subjects Titles Authors ... Latest Consider Phlebas Iain M. Banks Futura 1988 A book review by Danny Yee Consider Phlebas is the first of Iain M. Banks' Culture novels. It is space opera on the grand scale, set in the middle of an immense war between the Culture and the Idirans, but its plot revolves around a personal story. A Culture Mind has escaped an ambush and hidden itself on Schar's World, one of the forbidden Planets of the Dead; the Idirans send the Changer Horza, who has friends on a scientific station on the planet, to capture it. Among other adventures, Horza's journey involves him in battles with a mercenary band, an encounter with cannibalism, and participation in a high-stakes game of Damage on an Orbital about to be destroyed, before a final confrontation in the tunnels of Schar's World. The plot of Consider Phlebas sprawls in sometimes disconnected fashion and it is not the best of the Culture novels. As always, however, Banks offers an abundance of original and appealing ideas and tells a rattling good yarn. 16 March 1992 Related reviews: - by Iain M. Banks

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