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Iain M. Banks wrote science fiction including the Culture novels, alongside fiction published as Iain Banks. His imagined societies and far-reaching technologies are recurring subjects of discussion.
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The pandemic isn’t just canceling jobs, lots of fantasy and science fiction TV series – existing and in-the-works – are now being canned…
Fan David Barr Kirtley sits down with Simone Caroti – author of The Culture Series of Iain M. Banks: A Critical Introduction –…
In this video, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos talks about his vision to colonise space to benefit Earth and why’s he spending a billion…
Amazon Studios has picked up global television rights to the Culture’s first novel Consider Phlebas. The space opera by Iain M. Banks features…
‘Transition’ is about a multiverse where there an infinite number of Earths ranging from almost similar to the one we know to the…
‘Surface Detail’ is a Culture novel packed full of interesting ideas and sub-plots. The blurb on the back cover says that the Culture…
Gurgeh is bored. A master game player who has fame and privilege. As a citizen of the Culture, he also enjoys an idyllic…
The great science fiction author Iain Banks has passed away, we are informed by his family, just two months after his diagnosis of…
One of our favourite science fiction authors, Iain M Banks, has posted this very sad update online concerning his recently diagnosed terminal illness……
