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Dictionaries: General Computing Medical Legal Encyclopedia Iain M. Banks/Culture Word: Word Starts with Ends with Definition The Culture is a fictional Fiction is the term used to describe works of information created from the imagination. This is in contrast to non-fiction, which makes factual claims about reality. Fictional works books, pictures, stories, fairy tales, fables, films, comics, interactive fiction may be partly based on factual occurrences but always contain some imaginary content. Fiction is largely perceived as a Click the link for more information. anarchic Anarchism Click the link for more information. socialistic If you're looking for an economic and political system commonly used in the European union and British Commonwealth, see: Social Democracy If you're looking for the economic and political system used in the (now defunct) USSR and Cuba, see: Communism The term Socialism or Socialist can refer to several related things: An ideology or a group of ideologies. An economic system. A state that exists or has existed. In Marxist theory, the society that would succeed capitalism, and would be a precursor to Communism

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home SF book reviews Iain M. Banks Novels/collections Short fiction Other Search Web for Iain M. Banks Google search Alta Vista search Novels/Collections Culture Consider Phlebas The Player of Games Use of Weapons The State of the Art Against a Dark Background Feersum Endjinn Excession Inversions Look to Windward Short works "Scratch". 1987. In The State of the Art "A Gift from the Culture". 1987. In The State of the Art "Cleaning Up". 1987. In The State of the Art "Odd Attachment". 1987. In The State of the Art "Road of Skulls". 1988. In The State of the Art "The State of the Art". 1989. In The State of the Art "Piece". 1989. In The State of the Art "Descendant". 1991. In The State of the Art Other information A Few Notes on the Culture Taking the Fantastic out of Fiction panel, 1998 SF elements: super-rich anarchistic culture, superior artificial intelligences, mega-large artificial environments Iain M. Banks (note the 'M' - Iain Banks may be the same person , but he's not the same author ) writes about The Culture , a super-rich, super-advanced anarchic galactic civilisation of the future. Nearly everything is legal, everyone is fabulously wealthy and powerful, but not many seem to be very happy.

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Iain M. Banks L'homme des jeux L'usage des armes La Culture Date Divertissement Une forme de guerre (Consider Phlebas) L'homme des jeux (The player of games) L'usage des armes (The use of weapons) Excession (Excession) Autre roman Date Divertissement ENtreFER (The Bridge) Retour au sommaire

66. DALnetizen - Book Review - Excession By Iain M Banks Excession iain M banks banks is, without a doubt, one of the most awe-inspiring writers to have emerged on to the literary scene in the last 20 years. http://zine.dal.net/previousissues/issue13/editorial-pen-bookreview.php

The official ezine of the DALnet IRC Network March, 2002 Issue. Letter from the Editor DALnet People User Interview - Aries1 IRCop Interview - Fuggs ... Feedback Past Issues Past Issues Excession - Iain M Banks Banks is, without a doubt, one of the most awe-inspiring writers to have emerged on to the literary scene in the last 20 years. Adroitly straggling the fence between two great genres, he alternates between publishing delightfully odd fiction as Iain Banks and frighteningly grand science fiction as Iain M Banks. Excession is another romp into the world of his future civilisation, the Culture. The Culture is a pan-galactic society overseen by the benign paternal efforts of vast artificial intelligences called Minds. Guardianship by these Minds has ensured that humankind has rocketed beyond any problems of scarcity and disease and emerged into a hedonistic age where they can attain any mood they wish via the use of internal ‘drug glands’, never have to work, can change appearance or gender and enjoy an average lifespan of 400 years. This perfect, if rather uneventful, existence is offset by the antics of some rather less ‘enlightened’ species in the galaxy such as the Affront. This race of tentacledÜber-Klingons are highly aggressive party animals who view the Culture as a bunch of spineless do-gooders who they’d love to get an advantage over given half a chance. Into this background appears an ‘Out of Context’ problem, the Excession. An artefact billions of years old and of immeasurable power. It was last seen in a little used corner of space when a star mysteriously vanished, and now it has returned setting off alarm bells amongst the great ship Minds as well as thoughts of avarice from the Affront. The Culture’s aim is to try and make contact with this black body sphere, the Affront simply want to rape any technological knowledge they can to give them a power advantage in the galaxy.

67. S C R A W L - Iain (M) Banks Interview be producing more than its fair share of literary talent and recently that talent has began to make a notable impact on British SF, with iain M banks and Ken http://homepage.virgin.net/questing.beast/scrawl_feature4.htm

- Scrawl navigator - Main Menu Features Index Reviews Index Essentials Fiction Links etc UK Guide Scrawl Awards Story Prize Guidelines Education About Scrawl Contact Subscribe Sponsors Advertise Features . Summer . 2000 culture cruelty Iain (M) Banks One of the UK's most wildly imaginative authors talks to Scrawl about sex, space and smugness... Iain Menzies Banks is Scottish. He was born and raised in and around Dunfermline, Fife, educated at Sterling University. Along with fellow Scot, Irvin Welsh, Banks has become known as one of the most startling of modern British writers. Scotland seems to be producing more than its fair share of literary talent and recently that talent has began to make a notable impact on British SF, with Iain M Banks and Ken MacLeod pushing the vanguard. Is there something north of the border responsible for this top-heavy distribution of word-wielding talents? ‘I think it’s mainly just coincidence,’ Iain conceded, ‘But it is true that a good proportion of good British writers are Scottish... A cultural divide does exist and most English people don't understand the breadth of it. Writers in that situation develop a different voice and are more determined to express it. ‘I think Alasdair Gray’s Lanark is a landmark - the best Scottish novel this century! Scotland has been producing more than its fair share, in terms of literature, ever since - we’re just ten per cent of the UK, but we've got more than ten per cent of the best writers...’

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69. Postviews - Past SF Reviews, By Authors, A To Ba $11.95. iain M banks. Excession by iain M. banks. $17.95. eyan banhks nu nofall Feersum Enjinn by iain M banks. The Bottom Line. http://homepage.cs.latrobe.edu.au/agapow/Postviews/past_a-ba.html

Main Recent Authors Titles ... FAQ Past reviews, By Author, A-Ba Douglas Adams Going Through the Motions : "The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul" by Douglas Adams The holistic detective Dirk Gently returns when confronted with the strange case of an exploding check-in counter at Heathrow airport. He and an American journalist will pursue the case as it encompasses a mysterious disappearance, a rest-home and Norse mythology. "Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency" was a pleasant surprise after the steady deterioration in Adam's work. It was entertaining, intriguingly convoluted and had a clever and ludicrous plot that slowly fell out into perfect sense. All in all it was pretty snappy. Its sequel fumbles badly and reads a lot like some-one trying to imitate "Dirk Gentlys". Perhaps Adams (as has been reported for some of his other books) had to be locked in a hotel room to finish it. The delicious unveiling of the plot in "Gently's" is replaced by an incoherent and arbitrary mess. Some of the humour is still worthwhile but overall, it can't be recommended. Flat beer on the Sid and Nancy scale. %A Douglas Adams %B The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul %I William Heineman %C London, UK %D 1988 %G ISBN 0-434-00921-0 %P 246pp %O hardback, Aus$29.95

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75. Iain Banks: Excession And Whit Interview Getting Used To Being God. Chris Mitchell meets the relentlessly imaginative iain (M.) banks. iain (M.) banks he s out there - somewhere. http://www.spikemagazine.com/0996bank.htm

splinters (daily weblog) interviews features new writing ... contact spike Search Spike magazine Join the Spike magazine mailing list Getting Used To Being God Chris Mitchell meets the relentlessly imaginative Iain (M.) Banks email Chris at chris@spikemagazine.com Got an opinion or a question about this article? Come and talk about it in the spike forum T welve years and fourteen books since the publication of his debut novel The Wasp Factory, Iain Banks has become one of Britain's most prominent and prolific writers. Whether writing mainstream novels as plain "Iain Banks" or science fiction under his ubiquitous "Iain M. Banks" nom-de-plume, Banks has mastered the tricky art of attracting both bestseller status and critical acclaim. Now 42, Banks' most recent books, the sci-fi epic Excession and the religious cult thriller Whit

76. Iain M. Banks Interview I am quite a big fan of banks s work; I ve read almost everything he s written, whether as iain banks or iain M. banks, and consider him one of the best http://www.netsoc.ucd.ie/~tadhg/main/imb2.html

Sharon Jackson (then editor of Trinity's Alternate magazine) and I interviewed Iain M. Banks in February 1997 in the lobby of the Royal Dublin Hotel at Trincon 2, TCD's science fiction convention. A very slightly different version of this interview was published in Alternate magazine. I am quite a big fan of Banks's work; I've read almost everything he's written, whether as Iain Banks or Iain M. Banks, and consider him one of the best novelists currently writing in English. For the pedantic among you: I refer to him as Iain M . Banks here because we were at a science fiction convention. Sharon Jackson: So, to start with a classic question: what are you working on at the moment? Iain M. Banks: Damn, if you'd asked me that on Friday evening, I could've said "tomorrow's hangover". But in fact, the next book is pretty well finished, the only thing that remains to be done is copy editing. It's mainstream, short and bitter. Back to grim again. I'm veering wildly across the road of literature, from the cosy sentimentality of The Crow Road and Whit to the deeply unpleasant, gratuitously nasty stuff like

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Steven Wu's Book Reviews Author Title Rating ... Z Authors B Banks, Iain Wasp Factory, The Banks, Iain M Against a Dark Background Feersum Endjinn The Culture Consider Phlebas Excession Inversions Look to Windward ... Use of Weapons Barker, Clive Hellbound Heart, The Barnes, Julian A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters Baxter, Stephen Time Ships, The Beagle, Peter S Last Unicorn, The Bear, Greg Darwin's Radio Bloch, Robert Psycho Borges, Jorge Luis Ficciones Bowden, Mark Blackhawk Down Bradley, Marion Zimmer Mists of Avalon, The Brin, David The Uplift Series Startide Rising Brust, Steven Agyar The Vlad Taltos Series Jhereg Yendi Teckla Taltos ... Athyra Bujold, Lois McMaster The Vorkosigan Series Shards of Honor Barrayar Warrior's Apprentice, The A ... Steven Wu's Book Reviews

78. Science Fiction Weekly Interview Cultured futurist iain M. banks creates an ornate utopia. By Nick Gevers ain banks is one of Britain s most versatile and ambitious http://www.scifi.com/sfw/issue274/interview.html

RECENT INTERVIEWS The cast and crew of Eight Legged Freaks The cast and crew of Reign of Fire ... Ian Watson Cultured futurist Iain M. Banks creates an ornate utopia By Nick Gevers ain Banks is one of Britain's most versatile and ambitious novelists, the recipient of an enviable combination of popular and critical acclaim. A restless experimenter, at home in a host of genres which he effortlessly hybridizes, he has, as Iain M. Banks, produced a stream of major SF novels. Pyrotechnic, action-filled, satiric, outlandish, deep and frivolous all at once, these bravura space operas and planetary romances juggle galactic scale, political argument and personal perspective with a revelatory energy rarely matched in speculative fiction. Banks' analyses are complex and at times heart-rending; the Culture's Contact Section and its Special Circumstances operatives, mirroring the CIA in disconcerting ways, are very far from infallible. Their adventures feature in Consider Phlebas The Player of Games The State of the Art Use of Weapons Excession Inversions (1998) and Look to Windward (2000). Two novels not concerning the Culture

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80. Author List Of Science Fiction Ballard, JG. The Drowned World. banks, iain M. Against a Dark Background. banks, iain M. Consider Phlebas. banks, iain M. Excession. banks, iain M. http://www.bookworm.com.au/bookworm/authorsf.htm

Science Fiction By Author This is a list of science fiction books by author. Click on the title for more details. There is also a list of Australian science fiction Abe, Kobo Beyond the Curve Adams, Douglas The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Adams, Douglas The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: A Trilogy in Four Parts Adams, Douglas Life, the Universe and Everything Adams, Douglas Mostly Harmless Adams, Douglas Mostly Harmless Adams, Douglas The Restaurant at the End of the Universe Adams, Douglas The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time Adams, Douglas So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish Aiken, Joan Cold Shoulder Road Aiken, Joan Cold Shoulder Road Aldiss, Brian A.I. : Supertoys Last All Summer Long and Other Stories of Future Time Allen, Roger MacBride Isaac Asimov's Caliban Allen, Roger MacBride Isaac Asimov's Inferno Allston, Aaron Iron Fist Allston, Aaron Rebel Dream Allston, Aaron Rebel Stand Allston, Aaron Solo Command Allston, Aaron Starfighters of Adumar Allston, Aaron Wraith Squadron Anderson, Kevin J. Champions of the Force Anderson, Kevin J.

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