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Iain M. Banks: getting some Culture (audio interview).

Fan David Barr Kirtley sits down with Simone Caroti – author of The Culture Series of Iain M. Banks: A

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Iain M. Banks’ Culture books make it to Amazon Prime as a TV series.

Amazon Studios has picked up global television rights to the Culture’s first novel Consider Phlebas. The space opera by Iain

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Surface Detail by Iain M Banks (book review).
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Surface Detail by Iain M Banks (book review).

‘Surface Detail’ is a Culture novel packed full of interesting ideas and sub-plots. The blurb on the back cover says

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The Player of Games by Iain M Banks (ebook review).

Gurgeh is bored. A master game player who has fame and privilege. As a citizen of the Culture, he also

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Message from Iain M. Banks... only months to live, now.
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Update from Iain M. Banks… only months to live, now.

One of our favourite science fiction authors, Iain M Banks, has posted this very sad update online concerning his recently

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