King Solomon's Frog
IainMac9 ๐ฆ๐บ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ๐ธ๐ฉHappy Birthday Iain (M) Banks - one of the greatest authors, missed every day! Have a nice malt in his memory. #IainBanks #IainMBanks #books @bookstodon
@bookstodon Iโve not read the Quarry - canโt bring myself toโฆ.. ๐ข
Theta Sigma@IainMac9 favourite novel?
@ThetaSigma probably Excession, which made my brain explode!
@IainMac9 Excession is so good. Although itโs probably Look to Windward, Algebraist or Complicity for me.
@ThetaSigma all wonderful! Itโs a very close firstโฆ.
MrGregRussell@IainMac9 @bookstodon Iโm having one now ๐๐ฅ
@IainMac9 @bookstodon and the best opening line of all time: โIt was the day my grandmother exploded.โ I remember reading that line and devouring The Crow Road. A great talent sorely missed
@greg_r @bookstodon superb! The TV version was also pretty enjoyable
@IainMac9 @bookstodon it was surprisingly well done!
David Bamford@IainMac9 @bookstodon
Fave Iain Banks: The Wasp Factory
Fave Iain M Banks: Against A Dark Background
Fave Culture: Use of Weapons
The Culture novels got me through lockdown. He was truly brilliant.
Semi Sentient AI Cooling Water@IainMac9 @bookstodon One of the finest contemporary & sci-fi authors of our generation. I've read most but clearly not all. I once saw a small production of The Wasp Factory. A wee play beautifully done. When I we gonna see a movie of the Culture Universe? Though I am afraid they'll give it to Michael Bay I really would like to see it done justice. Anyone know the Wachowskis?
Andra Filipescu@sentient_water @IainMac9 @bookstodon Amazon has brought the rights to adapt to the books, no news yet on who could be in the running to write/direct or be show runner.
@musingoddity @sentient_water @bookstodon there was talk of a POG Amazon adaptation - not seen anything about it recently - just hope they donโt bastardise it like they did with the Hitchhikers movie (the BBC tv version was ok)
@IainMac9 @musingoddity @bookstodon I was a bit confused by POG. Player of Games! Still one of my favourites. I'm just excited to see the quirky AI & ships. Always enjoyed their being shown as full characters rather than just mechanical plot devices. Still I'm excited to hear it's a possibility.
@sentient_water @musingoddity @bookstodon found a link - looks like CP was first up - https://www.theskinny.co.uk/tv-radio/news/amazon-are-adapting-iain-m-banks-culture-novels-into-a-series?amp
@IainMac9 @musingoddity @bookstodon So excited ๐. It's about time this truly is the golden age of televisual entertainment. If they mess it up though. Heads will roll!!
Ian Haywood@sentient_water @IainMac9 @musingoddity @bookstodon Noooooooo....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consider_Phlebas#Cancelled_TV_adaptation
I suppose putting the Culture onscreen would be difficult for Bezos to stomach ideologically
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consider_Phlebas#Cancelled_TV_adaptation
I suppose putting the Culture onscreen would be difficult for Bezos to stomach ideologically
@ihaywood @IainMac9 @musingoddity @bookstodon What a moneyless, stateless, free, utopia were everyone has everything they need. What I find amazing about The Culture is it is as truly utopic as it gets in any fiction but he finds the cracks. Bezos & buddies would not fit in.
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@sentient_water @ihaywood @IainMac9 @musingoddity @bookstodon don't we all dream of joining the Contact Section? Or even (gasp!) Special Circumstances?
Calm, considering@Wyvernsridge
I think just to be a citizen of The Culture would be enough.
Though the books are clearly sci-fi, they also at times feel like fantasy. And by that, I'm referring to one of the aims of fantasy fiction is to create worlds readers wish to be in.
Many-a-time when reading Culture books I've let my imagination wander into this world. I deeply wish it really existed. I'd be there faster than a rat up a drainpipe.
Perhaps Banks was always a Contact agent, and has gone home.
I think just to be a citizen of The Culture would be enough.
Though the books are clearly sci-fi, they also at times feel like fantasy. And by that, I'm referring to one of the aims of fantasy fiction is to create worlds readers wish to be in.
Many-a-time when reading Culture books I've let my imagination wander into this world. I deeply wish it really existed. I'd be there faster than a rat up a drainpipe.
Perhaps Banks was always a Contact agent, and has gone home.
@calmconsidering perhaps he was. Lovely thought!
@sentient_water @ihaywood @IainMac9 @musingoddity @bookstodon
Apparently Bezos (and Musk) are big fans of The Culture books. Though their taste is clearly acceptable, they also obviously have no sense of irony
Apparently Bezos (and Musk) are big fans of The Culture books. Though their taste is clearly acceptable, they also obviously have no sense of irony
@IainMac9 @musingoddity @bookstodon I highly rate Transition. Which seemed to draw the best from both his contemporary & science fiction. There are so many to choose from.
@IainMac9 @musingoddity @sentient_water @bookstodon
Unless there have been more recent developments, it appears Amazon eventually dropped the project:
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/aug/26/amazon-tv-adaptation-of-iain-banks-culture-series-is-cancelled
This for me was a huge shame No doubt, it likely wouldn't have stood up to expectations - many such adaptations haven't.
@calmconsidering @IainMac9 @musingoddity @bookstodon That is a shame. Still it'll give me time to reread all The Culture novels again before Amazon imposes its version of the universe on my brain.
@sentient_water @IainMac9 @musingoddity @bookstodon
I can only really see Phlebas being adaptable as it's the most "space opera" of his works, and perhaps PoG, due to it being quite a linear read, or Surface Detail. The rest though.....
Much as I'd love to see it, no way is Excession filmable
I can only really see Phlebas being adaptable as it's the most "space opera" of his works, and perhaps PoG, due to it being quite a linear read, or Surface Detail. The rest though.....
Much as I'd love to see it, no way is Excession filmable