The book Consider Phlebas by the late Iain M Banks.
Re-reading this epic from the late great Mr Banks.
Totally fluid style of writing bringing the alien worlds and people realistically to life and making them accessible.
I miss his work. 😓
#iainmbanks
Some words about the thought process that went into the development of Broken Spark, Chapter 9: on the nature of ship computer interfaces in the far future. Review of Dr Who, Blakes Seven, Star Trek, Knight Rider, the books of Iain M. Banks […]
A pint of hazy IPA in front of me on the bar, alongside my Kobo eReader, as I settle down for a relaxing evening at my local.
A post-St-Paddy's-Day pint and a read at my local pub after a busy day, while a live Irish band plays music in the background. Colour and Shape by Superflux, Look to Windward by Iain M. Banks 🍻 📖 #yyj #IainMBanks #theCulture
We are Up Ordure Inlet, With No Visible Means of Hydro-kinetic Propulsion. #iainmbanks #iainbanks
RE: https://mastodon.scot/@scotlit/116080616274217433
⭐️⭐️⭐️🧵On the writing and influence of #iainmbanks — his double life as an author
Today's Wyrd Britain birthday honours go out to #PamelaColmanSmith (1878), illustrator of the Rider-Waite Tarot Deck; #IainMBanks (1954); musician #JhonnBalance (1962) of #Coil; 9th Doctor #ChristopherEccleston (1964) & author #WarrenEllis (1968).
#wyrdbritainbirthdays
Three cans of beer by Gravity Well brewing with colourful nebulae on their labels. One can is The Great Filter 6% One can is Surface Detail 4.6% One can is Exceeding the Chandrasekhar Limit 8.0% I'm particularly excited about the Surface Detail can. Iain M. Banks is probably my favourite author :)
Finally found a can of Surface Detail!
I'm not the biggest fan of pale ale, but frankly, I simply could not pass it up!
#iainmbanks #theculture
Book cover. Against a Dark Background by Iain M. Banks (SF / 1993) Brown cover with a body of water on which sail / float a variety of vessels
Book cover. Feersum Endjin by Iain M. Banks (SF / 1994) reddish cover which shows what appears to be a mountain peak.
Book cover. Inversions by Iain M. Banks (Culture #6 / 1998) Shades of green with an Oriental type gate in which stands a person.
Book cover. The Hydrogen Sonata by Iain M. Banks (Culture #10 / 2012) Space scene with a planetscape and a moon circling
💙📚 #BookSky #BucketLists
#IainMBanks 4 books sitting on my shelves waiting for me to read #BlueSkyBooks Pt 2 of 2
Book cover. Consider Phlebas by Iain M. Banks (Culture #1 / 1987) Cover shows a space ship sitting on the shore of a sea (5.0 stars)
Book cover. Matter by Iain M. Banks (Culture #8 / 2008) Shows a person in a cape walking on a planet's surface (5.0 stars)
Book cover. Excession by Iain M. Banks (Culture #5 / 1996) Cover shows an outer space setting with a planet in the bottom right and a space ship circling it. (5.0 stars)
Book cover. The Algebraist by Iain M. Banks (2004 / SF) Cover shows a planet with two clocklike cogs above and also squidlike creatures floating between the wheels (4.0 stars)
💙📚 #BookSky #BucketLists
Authors I hope to finish before I die. Not sure how many, still making my list.
4. #IainMBanks (1939) Author of #Culture series plus standalone Sci Fi and Fiction (as Iain Banks).
#BlueSkyBooks Pt 1 of 2
The Infinite Fun Space Discord server has had a surge of users recently - love seeing the place so lively. Got an interesting project in the works, being prepared by Contact
#theculture #discord #iainmbanks
“The Player of Games” isn’t the first of Banks’ Culture novels, but it’s a great introduction to his sci-fi works.
Highly recommended if you’re not already familiar with them.
#TheCulture #IainMBanks
Screenshot of the Windows file explorer with two drives listed. The drives are named Feersum and Endjinn.
New SSD installed thereby increasing the level of #IainMBanks in my house
Don't forget #IainMBanks!
Here's a popular one you might not have seen yet. Which is your favourite? 🪐📚💙 #scifibooks #sciencefiction #booktube #theculture #iainmbanks
youtu.be/Syk-rUMsTv8
Day 11. A book set in a location I'd like to visit.
Obviously The Culture. Specifically, on a spaceship with a very sarcastic Mind.
Erm, which book🤔...
Excession.
By #IainMBanks
#30DayBookChallenge
#booksky 💙📚 #books
Why sci-fi novelist Iain M. Banks was an ‘astounding’ world-builder #Science #Culture #SciFi #WorldBuilding #IainMBanks
Awkward shapes in a sky heavy world, golds and purples.
Consider Phlebas
#Abstract #Collage #Art #Painting #OC #IainMBanks
Delightedly exploring Iain M. Banks' The Culture: The Drawings at my favorite coffee shop Red Otter Coffee. Thank you @orbitbooks.bsky.social for this amazing gift!
#iainmbanks #worldbuilding #spaceopera #theculture
Aujourd'hui sur Blog à part – « I’m Not Disappointed Just Mad », de Daryl Gregory
Tindal, un jeune glandeur, reçoit la visite de sa « tante », qui lui demande de l’aider à déménager un canapé pendant une attaque extra-terrestre.
#Novella #ScienceFiction #IainMBanks
"Eight hundred years ago, desperate to avert their inevitable defeat, the Idirans had induced not one but two suns to explode, snuffing out worlds teeming with sentient life."
#Culture, but funny, and sad, and philosophical, and orbital.
#booksky #scifi #iainmbanks #spaceopera #reconciliation
Alternating reading between #IainMBanks Hydrogen Sonata and @matociquala.bsky.social s so far excellent Folded Sky is an interesting experience. Mostly it feels like many of those Gzilt fellows really needed their rightminding adjusted.
A full set of The Culture books by Iain M Banks.
If we, the SF reading public, wanted more Culture novels, who would we want to fill the rather large and imposing authorly shoes of the sadly departed Mr Banks? Your answers on a postcard (showing my age) or below. 🪐📚💙🚀
#spaceopera #theculture #iainmbanks #scifibooks
'Matter' (a Culture novel) by Iain M. Banks. Cover illustration shows a humanoid figure in part-silhouette with flowing cloak or long coat, on the orange-tinged surface of a planet.
Popped into a local op shop during lunch for a quick browse, and thought I'd come up empty-handed for a change, til I spotted this on a bottom shelf on the way out.
Mine for the princely sum of $4 - appears to be brand spanking new/unread too - bonus!
#IainMBanks #TheCulture #books 💙📚
Book cover. The State of the Art by Iain M. Banks (1991) Cover is blue, shows a floating space vehicle and a curved object. 3 stars
Photo of Iain M. Banks taken at Edinburgh International book festival, 2009. Born Dunfermline Scotland 1954, died Kirkcaldy, Scotland 2013. Author of mainstream fiction as Iain Banks and Sci Fi as Iain M. Banks.
💙📚 #BlueSkyBooks The Short Story
(Books by 46 authors I've read & enjoyed)
46 authors, various genres
Author #4 / 46
#Booksky
#ShortStory
#IainMBanks (Sci Fi)
Returning after a 9 year slumber…. triobelisk.bandcamp.com/album/awaken...
#scifi #electronicmusic #synthsky #synthesizers #electro #techno #burial #iainmbanks #sciencefiction #android #robots #ai #notAi
“‘Works better with these,’ the man said, reaching into a shirt pocket, and throwing a dozen bullets onto the bed at the Ethnarch’s feet.” — Iain M. Banks, ‘Use of Weapons’
“Think of it as a sort of mutual rape.” — Iain M. Banks, ‘The Player of Games’
