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Welcome to the Culture, the Galactic Civilization That Iain M. Banks Built

We’ve put together this handy primer for you on the Culture, the pan-galactic civilization whose members and ex-members are the subjects of so many Banks novels. Not only do we have a rundown of every single Culture novel, but we’ve also got some important excerpts from an obscure essay Banks wrote in 1994 about the … Continued

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Advance Copy of Iain M. Banks’ New Novel on iTunes

Orbit Books just announced that iTunes UK is making an unabridged audio book of Iain M. Banks’ new novel Matter available a few days before its official release on Feb. 7. If you need something to listen to on your commute, this is it. Action-packed and strange, it’s Iain M. Banks at his world-building and … Continued