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This extraordinary collection celebrates the dazzling worldbuilding of Iain M. Banks, one of the most important and influential writers in modern science fiction.
Faithfully reproduced from notebooks he kept in the 1970s and 80s, these annotated original illustrations depict the ships, habitats, geography, weapons and language of Banks' Culture series of novels in incredible detail.
Praise for the Culture series:
'Epic in scope, ambitious in its ideas and absorbing in its execution' Independent on Sunday
'Few of us have been exposed to a talent so manifest and of such extraordinary breadth' New York Review of Science Fiction
'Jam-packed with extraordinary invention' Scotsman
'Banks has created one of the most enduring and endearing visions of the future' Guardian
The Culture series:
- Consider Phlebas
- The Player of Games
- Use of Weapons
- The State of the Art
- Excession
- Inversions
- Look to Windward
- Matter
- Surface Detail
- The Hydrogen Sonata
- Other books by Iain M. Banks:
- Against a Dark Background
- Feersum Endjinn
- The Algebraist
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