achrilock · @achrilock
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BBC’s of ’ State of the Art available for 2 weeks here:

bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/b00hv1dz

#SciFi #iainmbanks #radioplay

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Ames · @runoutgroover
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Why do we still not have a film or TV series?

#iainmbanks #culture

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gimulnautti · @gimulnautti
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Iain M Banksin ”Culture” novellisarjassa tekoälyt hallitsevat; mutta ne ovat pitäneet ihmiset mukana. Miksi? Yksi kymmenestä miljoonasta on kuitenkin niin fiksu, että loppujen pitäminen elossa kannattaa. Ja tekoälyt itsekin ”lisääntyvät”, ja tulevat hulluiksi, jne.

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Jane Fanghanel · @jkfanghanel
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Try for . The series on are very good - first one . Banks also writes as which are also very good - was his first.

#thewaspfactory #IainBanks #considerphlebas #theculture #scifi #books #iainmbanks

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kit yetts · @cour13r5
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collection of iain m banks drawings of THE CULTURE coming later this year.

hachettebookgroup.com/titles/i

#sff #theculture #iainmbanks

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By-Tor · @by_tor
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Ahhh. Ten years since the death of one of my favourite authors. Writer of strange fiction and science fiction, I'm raising a toast of a wee dram of malt whisky to Iain (M) Banks.

Here is a nice wee introduction to his oeuvre in The Guardian.

theguardian.com/books/2023/jun

#books #literature #maltwhisky #whisky #scottishfiction #scifi #sciencefiction #iainmbanks #IainBanks

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Assoc for Scottish Literature · @scotlit
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“A small, short war that rarely extended throughout more than .02% of the galaxy by volume and .01% by stellar population”

—CONSIDER PHLEBAS, by

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Assoc for Scottish Literature · @scotlit
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Assoc for Scottish Literature · @scotlit
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Where to start with: Iain Banks

This month marks 10 years since the award-winning novelist Iain Banks died aged 59. The beloved writer, who wrote as & as began his writing career with the hit novel The Wasp Factory in 1984, & went on to write more than 30 books. Steven Poole picks out some good ways in to his world.

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theguardian.com/books/2023/jun

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@CurlyParakeet but you can let a year or two go by then read them all again! Pure class & wonderful AI characters

#scottishwriters #bookstodon #books #iainmbanks #scifi #sciencefiction

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LordWoolamaloo · @LordWoolamaloo
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Delighted to hear from fine @orbitbooks crew that long-gestating project to bring The Culture drawings of the late, & still much-missed Iain M Banks to print, now has a November 2023 release.

"Faithfully reproduced from sketchbooks kept in the 1970s & 80s, these annotated original illustrations depict the ships, habitats, geography, weapons and language of Banks' Culture series of novels in incredible detail."

#theculture #iainmbanks #sciencefiction #livres #books

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Just finished Ann Leckie’s Ancillary Justice trilogy. Hugely enjoyable. Science fiction’s ability to present different possibilities is so welcome & her AIs are very much more nuanced than present debate would allow.

It is one of the reasons I love Iain M Banks’ Culture world - the AIs were the quirky stars of his novels!

PS please don’t @ me with a flood of techie detail!

#artificialintelligence #ai #ancillaryjustice #theculture #iainmbanks #annleckie #bookstodon #scifi #sciencefiction

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Misinformation-Superhighwayman · @DamienWise
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Greg Lloyd · @Roundtrip
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For a complete list of names, classes, descriptions, and the novels they appear in, see theculture.fandom.com/wiki/Lis

#iainmbanks #cultureship

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Greg Lloyd · @Roundtrip
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Culture ship ‘Mistake Not’ is one of Bank’s most memorable characters.🚀

‘Mistake Not’ is short for: ‘Mistake Not My Current State Of Joshing Gentle Peevishness For The Awesome And Terrible Majesty Of The Towering Seas Of Ire That Are Themselves The Mere Milquetoast Shallows Fringing My Vast Oceans Of Wrath’ an Eccentric Offensive Unit

It’s wonderful hear Peter Kenney *repeatedly* perform ‘Mistake Not’s full name in Ship conversations of the Audible ‘Hydrogen Sonata’

#cultureship #iainmbanks

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