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Amazon have decided to have a second go at adapting the Culture  series of science fiction novels by the late Scottish author Iain M. Banks...

Iain M. Banks's Culture  universe is one of the most accomplished in all of science fiction and fantasy, and is now getting two compani...

Amazon have cancelled work on their planned television adaptation of Consider Phlebas , the first novel in Iain M. Banks' Culture  seri...

In a surprise announcement, Jeff Bezos, the head of Amazon, has personally confirmed that his company is developing Iain M. Banks' Cul...

Back in 2009 I published a reading order to the Culture  novels of Iain M. Banks. Sadly, Iain is no longer with us, meaning that the Cultur...

Strange Horizons have published a previously unreleased interview with the late Iain M. Banks. The interview was conducted in 2010 and focu...

The terrible news has broken that author Iain Banks has lost his battle with cancer. He was 59 years old. Iain Banks came to immediat...

In an official statement , Scottish author Iain Banks has confirmed that he has only months to live after it was discovered he'd had can...

Thousands of years ago, the Culture encountered an Outside Context Problem. A perfectly black sphere materialised out of nowhere next to a t...

Some upcoming cover art, courtesy of Jussi at Westeros.org once more: First up, the American cover for Blood of Dragons , the fourth volum...

Forbidden Planet are hosting an interesting event at the British Library in London on 9 June. SF heavyweights Iain M. Banks and Kim Stanley ...

A host of cover art for forthcoming books. First up is The Emperor's Soul by Brandon Sanderson. This 30,000-word novella is a lim...

Iain M. Banks is returning to The Culture setting in his new novel, The Hydrogen Sonata . It will be published on 4 October this year in th...

Orbit have released the cover art for Iain M. Banks's new Culture novel, Surface Detail. Interestingly, last time I saw news on this bo...

This is one everyone can join in on. What are the most common errors you see people making about SFF books? Not spelling mistakes or things ...

As picked up by Aidan , a Culture movie could be in the works. Director Dominic Murphy is attached to an adaptation of Iain M. Banks' s...

Cheradenine Zakalwe is a (non-Culture-born) agent in Special Circumstances, skilled in steering less-developed planets towards the path that...

The State of the Art is Iain M. Banks first, and to date only, short story collection. It was originally published in 1991 and features bot...

As keen-eyed readers may have noticed, I am currently undertaking a read-through of Iain M. Banks' Culture novels. Whilst trundling aro...

Jernau Morat Gurgeh is a master games-player. From his home Orbital, he has mastered many different games played by many different species a...