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The Culture: The Drawings

Hardcover / ISBN-13: 9780356519425

Price: £50

ON SALE: 7th November 2023

Genre: Fiction & Related Items

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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


***Also, look out for the Deluxe ‘Special Circumstances’ Edition of The Culture: The Drawings. This ultimate, limited collector’s edition includes an exclusive, numbered, cloth-bound edition of The Culture: The Drawings in a sumptuous presentation case, a booklet of original Culture-inspired artwork, specially commissioned 3D printing files and many other Culture-inspired features***

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Banks has created one of the most enduring and endearing visions of the future
GUARDIAN
Epic in scope, ambitious in its ideas and absorbing in its execution
INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY on The Culture series
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 on The Culture series