HiggsHaven't read the novella but thoroughly enjoyed this radio adaptation of #IainMBanks The State of the Art. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/b00hv1dz?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile
Sean Eric FaganCached US #KindleBookGiveaway on bsky: 6 copies of #UseOfWeapons, a #Culture book by #IainMBanks, over at https://bsky.app/profile/kithrup.bsky.social/post/3mhoendn7n227
Sean Eric Fagan (@kithrup.bsky.social)
Cached US #KindleBookGiveaway: 6 copies of Use of Weapons by Iain M. Banks, the 3rd Culture novel, which I *have read* and *have enjoyed* and boy do I have a story about it! I read it, and then, six months later, came across the book in my pile, and started reading it. I had forgotten it!
Broken SparkSome 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...
https://khleedril.org/blog/2026-03-19--sci-fi-ship-computer.html
#writing #BrokenSpark #scifi #DrWho #StarTrek #Blakes7 #KnightRider #IainMBanks
Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈@Nickiquote this is how I feel when Elon Musk desecrates the memory of Iain M Banks
Joe Watching ⚽🎞️🚴📺Oh that's really good. And to bring up one of the best from one of the best! You made my day!
Assoc for Scottish LiteratureCurrently on BBC Sounds: THE STATE OF THE ART by Iain M. Banks
In 1977, the Culture starship GCU ARBITRARY discovers Earth: a primitive society on the edge of self-destruction.
When Contact agent Dervley Linter decides to go native, can Diziet Sma change his mind?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00hv1dz
#Scottish #literature #sciencefiction #scifi #IainBanks #IainMBanks #TheCulture #audiobook
Greg LloydRE: https://mastodon.scot/@scotlit/116080616274217433
⭐️⭐️⭐️🧵On the writing and influence of #iainmbanks — his double life as an author
“An Outside Context Problem was the sort of thing most civilisations encountered just once, and which they tended to encounter rather in the same way a sentence encountered a full stop…”
—Iain M. Banks, EXCESSION (1996)
#Scottish #literature #sciencefiction #IainBanks #IainMBanks #TheCulture #videogames #Civ #Civilization #SidMeier
“Sid Meier’s CIVILIZATION was one of the most addicting games of my life… I was pleasantly surprised to hear that Iain M. Banks shared the addiction and that his Culture novel EXCESSION was in part inspired by it.”
—Peter Tieryas on how Sid Meier’s CIVILIZATION helped inspire Iain M. Banks’s 1996 Culture novel EXCESSION
#Scottish #literature #sciencefiction #IainBanks #IainMBanks #TheCulture #videogames #Civ #Civilization #SidMeier
On Iain M. Banks and the Video Game that Inspired Excession - Reactor
Sid Meier’s Civilization was one of the most addicting games of my life. I feel like I could have learned several new programming languages in the weeks and months I spent building pixelated empires, warring with foreign nations, pursuing brand new technology, and losing everything in an inferno of digital destruction. I was pleasantly surprised Read More »
“I mean, your society’s broken, so who should we blame? Should we blame the rich, powerful people who caused it? No let’s blame the people with no power & no money & these immigrants who don’t even have the vote, yeah it must be their fucking fault.”
—Iain Banks, the final interview
13/13
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/jun/15/iain-banks-the-final-interview
#Scottish #literature #fiction #sciencefiction #IainBanks #IainMBanks #TheCulture
