1. Iain M. Banks - Bibliography Summary Iain M. Banks Bibliography Summary. Web Page http//tigger.uic.edu/~pillbox/cs/shock.html; Interviews Iain M. Banks Makes Up Good Tunes (1993). http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?Iain_M._Banks

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4. Ex Libris Archives: Iain M. Banks Home Ex Libris Authors Iain M. banks iain m. Banks. A little culture Have you seen our weblog or our monthly book review? Books by Iain (M.) Banks. 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

5. Iain Banks Iain Menzies Banks (born on February 16, 1954 in Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland) writes mainstream novels as Iain Banks and science fiction as Iain M. Banks. http://www.fact-index.com/i/ia/iain_banks.html

Main Page See live article Alphabetical index Iain Banks Iain Menzies Banks (born on February 16 in Dunfermline Fife Scotland writes ... novels as Iain Banks and science fiction as Iain M. Banks Table of contents 1 Politics 2 Miscellany 3 Bibliography 3.1 Mainstream novels ... 4 External Links Politics As with his friend Ken MacLeod (another Scottish writer of technical and social science fiction) a strong awareness of left-wing history shows in his writings. The argument that an economy of abundance renders anarchy viable (or even inevitable) attracts many as an interesting potential experiment, were it ever to become testable. Miscellany Banks tends to write a novel in around three months, working solidly, then take nine months off. In his leisure time, he has had flying lessons and records his own rock music He has been the subject of a South Bank Show television programme. He refuses to write magazine articles, reviews and other similar pieces. Bibliography Mainstream novels His mainstream novels are: The Wasp Factory Walking on Glass The Bridge Espedair Street BBC radio in (dir. Dave Batchelor)

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Book Reviews and Compare Prices for Banks Iain M Home Browse Books Bookstore List Top Selling Books ... Rate Book Stores Search: Title/Author/Keywords/ISBN Authors A-Z Banks Iain M Book Review and Price Comparison Pages: Next Top Selling Books for Banks Iain M Wasp Factory AUTHOR: Iain M. Banks ISBN: 0684853159 Publish Date: August 1998 Format: Paperback Compare prices for this book Business AUTHOR: Iain M. Banks ISBN: 0743200152 Publish Date: October 2001 Format: Paperback Compare prices for this book Complicity AUTHOR: Iain M. Banks ISBN: 0743200187 Publish Date: November 2002 Format: Paperback Compare prices for this book Ask Dr. Ian about Men's Health AUTHOR: Iain M. Banks, James Campbell, Mark Hamilton ISBN: 0856405922 Publish Date: December 1997 Format: Paperback Compare prices for this book Business AUTHOR: Iain M. Banks ISBN: 0743200144 Publish Date: November 2000 Format: Hardcover Compare prices for this book Inversions AUTHOR: Iain M. Banks ISBN: 0671036688 Publish Date: January 2000 Format: Hardcover Compare prices for this book Inversions AUTHOR: Iain M. Banks

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11. SF REVIEWS.NET: Consider Phlebas / Iain M. Banks IAIN M. BANKS. CONSIDER PHLEBAS 1987. Review © 2001 TM Wagner. Book cover art by Paul Youll. AUTHOR S SITE. Iain M. Banks is not a http://www.sfreviews.net/phlebas.html

IAIN M. BANKS CONSIDER PHLEBAS Book cover art by Paul Youll. AUTHOR'S SITE Iain M. Banks is not a writer who is terribly well-known in the U.S., and that fact points to a truly sad state of affairs in American SF publishing. What a shame it is that fanboys line up around the block to buy the latest assembly-line Star Wars Consider Phlebas is so many things: breathlessly exciting space opera, yet starring a morally ambiguous antihero; a story which both embraces and rejects the romanticism of space adventure; a story which unsettles as often as it thrills. Banks demands a lot from his readers and challenges them, while managing to keep his story accessible and absorbing. He's quite unlike anyone writing in the field today. The novel is set in Banks' Culture milieu. The Culture is a starfaring society run by benevolent machines; its enemies, the Idirans, are a more traditional, religious race. And the two are at war, with the Idirans winning, because, after all, they fight the encroachment of the Culture with a passionate fervor while the humans living within the Culture are generally soft and satisfied, and have had to learn to harden themselves for the realities of warfare. Banks refuses to draw good guy/bad guy conclusions about either side, depicting instead a conflict between ideologies, each convinced it is operating in the best interests of living beings in general.

12. Iain M. Banks' Culture References In Bungie's Halo banks' "Culture" references in Bungie's Halo. Consider Phlebas (new UK cover) Illustrator Mark Salwowski. Consider Phlebas by iain M. banks was first published in 1987. http://marathon.bungie.org/story/halo_culture.html

Iain M. Banks' "Culture" references in Bungie's Halo Consider Phlebas (new UK cover) Illustrator Mark Salwowski. Consider Phlebas by Iain M. Banks was first published in 1987. The following is a description of the Vavatch Orbital (a mini-ringworld) taken from the book: "Vavatch lay in space like a god's bracelet. The fourteen-million kilometre hoop glittered and sparkled, blue and gold against the jet black gulf of space beyond. As the Clear Air Turbulence warped in towards the Orbital, most of the Company watched their goal approach on the main screen in the mess. The aquamarine sea, which covered most of the surface of the artefact's ultradense base material, was spattered with white puffs of cloud, collected in huge storm systems or vast banks, some of which seemed to stretch right across the full thirty-five-thousand-kilometre breadth of the slowly turning Orbital. Only on one side of that looped band of water was there any land visible, hard up against one sloped retaining wall of pure crystal. Although, from the distance they were watching, the sliver of land looked like a tiny brown thread lying on the edge of a great rolled-out bolt of vivid blue, that thread was anything up to two thousand kilometres across; there was no shortage of land on Vavatch." In a later section of the book there is the following line: "They were still flying over the Circlesea towards land when the Culture blew the whole Orbital into a fourteen-million-kilometre halo of light and dust..."

13. Iain M. Banks Index iain M. banks Index. It was some years back now that Gallery, I came across a strange book. Consider Phlebas written by one iain M. banks. http://www.geocities.com/~banksp/Rec/IainMBanks/Index.html

Iain M. Banks Index It was some years back now that, while wandering through the Wellington Central Public Library - before it moved out of the building now occupied by the National Art Gallery, I came across a strange book. 'Consider Phlebas' written by one Iain M. Banks. I put it in my bag, later checked it out of the library and began to read... The end result was of that initial reading was a collection of all of Iain's books that I could get my hands on along with a subsequent redefinition of what I expected out of a truely classic science fiction story. His work has the power to imagine huge structures and conflict on a massive scale while, at the same time, making it seem so real. He writes both fiction and science fiction with one important way to distinguish between them. All science fiction books are written by 'Iain M. Banks' while all the fiction works are written by an 'Iain Banks'. While I don't fully appreciate the reasons behind doing this, and it is quite intentional, it is useful to remember because it serves as an indicator of what the general aim of the story is but it also is quite good at confusing book stores who treat the two names quite distinctly. The hope is to allow readers to not only find out enough to find the books, but to introduce them to people who haven't met Iain's work before and finally to provide my own interpretation of the what the works are about.

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15. Www.sys.uea.ac.uk/~u9323899/cs/shock.html iain (M.) banks Resource Pageiain (M.) banks Resource Page. FAQs At present there are FAQs on the Culture, IMB, AaDB, The Bridge, Feersum Endjinn, Inversions and Use of Weapons. http://www.sys.uea.ac.uk/~u9323899/cs/shock.html

16. Guardian Unlimited Books | Links | Banks, Iain (M) A few notes on the Culture' by iain M banks. BackgroundSummary of published and unpublished SF writings Culture Shock intelligent and exhaustive unofficial iain M banks site http://books.guardian.co.uk/links/sites_on_writers/a-b/links/0,6135,97085,00.htm

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@import url(http://www.guardian.co.uk/external/globalcss/0,,,00.css); Sign in Register Go to: Guardian Unlimited home UK news World news Archive search Arts Books Business EducationGuardian.co.uk Film Football Jobs Life MediaGuardian.co.uk Money The Observer Online Politics Shopping SocietyGuardian.co.uk Sport Talk Travel Audio Email services Special reports The Guardian The weblog The informer The northerner The wrap Advertising guide Crossword Dating Headline service Syndication services Events / offers Help / contacts Information Living our values Newsroom Reader Offers Style guide Travel offers TV listings Weather Web guides Working at GNL Guardian Weekly Money Observer Home Guardian Review By genre Reviews ... Useful sites and work online Search this site IAIN BANKS "I just pick up my stories as I amble along, little bits of this, little bits of that. It gets easier the longer you've been at it." Birthplace Fife, Scotland Education Stirling University (English, philosophy, psychology) Other jobs He has worked as a dustman, and for IBM and British Steel. Did you know?

18. Iain M. Banks Books (book Reviews) Reviews of Consider Phlebas, The State of the Art and Use of Weapons iain M. banks. Reviews. Consider Phlebas iain M. banks' other science fiction works include Excession, Inversions, Feersum http://dannyreviews.com/a/Iain_M._Banks.html

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19. Iain M. Banks Book Reviews From Usenet Reviews of some of the author's books, collected from Usenet. From the Swedish Link¶ping S.F. Archives. http://sf.www.lysator.liu.se/sf_archive/sf-texts/books/B/Banks,Ian_M..mbox

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20. The Richmond Review, Feature Article, A Quick Chat With Iain M. Banks A Quick Chat With iain M. banks http://www.richmondreview.co.uk/features/banksint.html

feature item WHAT'S NEW LIBRARY FEATURES REVIEWS ... features : A Quick Chat With Iain M. Banks A Quick Chat With Iain M. Banks Related Links Excession - Richmond Review book review A Richmond Review feature article RR: Most of your central characters seem to dislike the Culture. IMB: The Culture is my utopia, my personal image of exactly the place I would like to live. I cannot imagine a better place, there's no way I can think of to make the Culture better resemble my own personal ideal for a utopian society. I'm very aware that that being the case it could get terribly boring if all I do is drone on about what a totally wonderful place the Culture is. It makes life more interesting, makes for a better novel if there's some sort of dynamic, a sort of tension in there. If you're writing from the point of view of someone who doesn't believe the same way you do it makes you think, you start to question your own beliefs and that's always a progressive, good thing to do. I tend to bend over backwards to look at the underside of the Culture. Having said that, the Culture does do its damnedest to accommodate everyone, even people who hate it. It expends vast amounts of time and resources making sure everyone can live exactly as they want. RR: And it's incredibly annoying in that respect.

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