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Iain M. Banks Biography

Books by Iain M. Banks

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  • Consider Phlebas: Banks himself once described the plot of Consider Phlebas as: "a shipwrecked sailor falls in with a gang of pirates and goes in search of buried treasure." And that's precisely...
  • Player Of Games: Probably the best of Ian Bank's Culture novels. Strong characters and a light-hearted tone to the novel despite the "seriousness" of the actual plot make this an easy, addicting read....
  • Use Of Weapons: Iain Banks burst onto the literary scene with his controversial first novel, The Wasp Factory, the violent story of a girl who had been brought up as an emasculated boy....
  • The State Of The Art:
  • Excession: The only negative accusation that the Culture Novels series receives is that it's too complicated and detailed, with so many AI characters to remember. Now of course, we don't think...
  • Inversions:
  • Look To Windward:
  • Matter:
  • Surface Detail:
  • The Hydrogen Sonata:
  • Matter:
  • Transition: I wonder if inserting an M in between my first name and surname will magically turn me into a top science-fiction writer like Iain Banks. (Really, he writes non science...
  • Matter: Strictly speaking, Banks’s Culture novels have nothing to do with posthumanity, since the humans of Earth are no part of the Culture, and many of the novels are actually theoretically...