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- 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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SF Reviews by Aaron M. Renn By Author By Title By Date Reviewed Consider Phlebas by Iain M. Banks Conclusion: Worth Reading Several people told me that if I liked Ken MacLeod I'd love Iain M. Banks. Well while in a neighborhood used bookstore recently, I saw a very cheap copy of Consider Phlebas and couldn't pass it up. Turns out it was a very good move because this was Banks' first SF book - always best to start at the beginning I say - and appears to be out of print in the United States. Unfortunately, I was disappointed. Perhaps this was inevitable. MacLeod is writing the best SF around these days, so comparisons to him are bound to generate unreasonably high expectations. The book was solidly written and moderately enjoyable, but clearly this is nowhere near the level of, say, The Star Fraction. Banks actually reminded me more of Douglas Adams than Ken MacLeod. The protagonist is a shapeshifter who is trying to recover a sentient computer core for his employer and keeps getting sidetracked by absurd adventures. The backdrop is a war between a warlike species called the Idirans and an amalgamation of human worlds called the Culture. Interestingly, Bora Horza Gobuchul - our protagonist - is on the side of the Idirans. I may not know much about Banks' writing, but I do know that his books are frequently referred to as the Culture novels, so I assumed the Culture were the Good Guys. Turned out that this really isn't a Good Guys v. Bad Guys novel, which is one of its strengths.

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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) Retour au sommaire

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Home Bookshop Science Fiction Iain M Banks is one of the UK's best science fiction writers. Most of his books are set in an impressively-realised Utopian future, known as the Culture. If you are interested in buying any of the following books, please click on their covers to link to amazon.co.uk Consider Phlebas (1988) The war raged across the galaxy. Billions had died, billions more were doomed. Within the cosmic conflict, there was an individual crusade: deep within a fabled labyrinth lay a fugitive Mind. Both the Culture and the Idirans sought it. The first of the Culture novels, 'Consider Phlebas' created a very plausible and fascinating future world. While the story isn't as great as some of Banks's later works, it's still an excellent novel. The Player of Games (1989) Bored with success, Gurgel - The Player of Games - travels to the Empire of Azad, cruel and incredibly wealthy, to try their fabulous game. This is a game so complex, so like life itself, that the winner becomes emperor. This is probably my favourite of the Culture series that I've read; strong characters and some extremely well realised cultural differences make for an excellent read.

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