#theculture — Public Fediverse posts

Black Twitter I̶s̶ T̶h̶r̶i̶v̶i̶n̶g̶ HAS TURNED INTO CONTROLLED OPPOSITION GIGS FOR A SELLOUT FEW —on Threads https://www.wired.com/story/threads-is-black-twitters-unlikely-spiritual-successor/

#TheCulture #marketing #blackwashing

@pikesley in #ConsiderPhebas the first novel in the timeline of the late #IainBanks #TheCulture series of #SciFi drowning in sewage is presented as the method of execution used by a gerontocracy.
It is not presented as desirable.

@helvick @gimulnautti That's the second iteration of the Use of Weapons cover. The original, that wasn't used on the book, had the aircraft firing on the land position, rather than being fired UPON from the ground, as in the text.

It was used as the cover for an issue of Foundation.

#ScienceFiction #IainBanks #IainMBanks #TheCulture

It's our monthly scifi #bookgroup in @thegamerclub #Glasgow this Wed (20th May) from 6pm. We're talking about The Culture & Iain M Banks.

A Few Notes on the Culture, by Iain M Banks: http://www.vavatch.co.uk/books/banks/cultnote.htm

All welcome. RSVP on meetup: https://www.meetup.com/the-glasgow-geeks/events/314310826/

#iainmbanks #theculture #geeksocial

This week on my #scifi #writing #podcast I continue my exploration of #TheCulture with a comparison of Contact with the Federation of #StarTrek and their #PrimeDirective. Spoiler: They're almost completely opposite.

https://lexstarwalker.com/lol/103

#AmWriting #WritingCommunity #AmWritingSciFi #ScienceFiction

#IainMBanks #TheCulture #SurfaceDetail

I've decided to re-read the entire series of Culture novels and short stories this summer. Been musing which one to start with. Not by order of publication. I'll take them in whichever order I feel like, one-by-one, starting today with Surface Detail because I remember fondly the character Lededje Y'breq who is taught and trained by the Mind on her ship Of Course I Still Love You.

Mmm, delicious Culture immersion.

Butlerian Jihad!

Plunder Speculative Fiction for your grifts, and we'll do the same for revenge!

Going to make a chair our of Elon for ripping off Iain M Banks!

#SamAltman #ButlerianJihad #TormentNexus #SpeculativeFiction #Hustle #Grift #GenAI #LLMs #TheCulture #Dune

https://www.europesays.com/dk/55631/ Is Dipping Copenhagen Acceptable Office Behavior? – Texas Monthly #Copenhagen #September2007Issue #TheCulture

5 Things You’ll Be Talking About in April – Texas Monthly https://www.rawchili.com/mlb/659934/ #April2013Issue #Astros #Baseball #Houston #HoustonAstros #HoustonAstros #MLB #TheCulture

Statues of Limitations – Texas Monthly https://www.rawchili.com/mlb/658080/ #Baseball #May2004Issue #MLB #Rangers #Sculpture #statues #Texas #TexasRangers #TexasRangers #TheCulture

5 Things You’ll Be Talking About in October – Texas Monthly https://www.rawchili.com/mlb/657586/ #Baseball #humor #MLB #October2012Issue #Rangers #StateFairOfTexas #Texas #TexasRangers #TexasRangers(baseball) #TexasRangers #TheCulture

RE: https://mastodon.social/@ScienceScholar/116296570108149184

Isn't this what ran the Minds in The Culture novels?

#IanMBanks #TheCulture #Science

I finally finished Iain M. Banks' series of "Culture" SF novels and thoroughly enjoyed it. There's an overview of the series on my blog at:

https://leejrussell.com/2026/03/22/iain-m-banks-culture-seriesutopia-power-and-moral-complexity/

Highly recommended reading!

#scifi #scifiReading #books #TheCulture #IainBanks

@Nickiquote this is how I feel when Elon Musk desecrates the memory of Iain M Banks

#IainMBanks #TheCulture

Currently on BBC Sounds: THE STATE OF THE ART by Iain M. Banks

In 1977, the Culture starship GCU ARBITRARY discovers Earth: a primitive society on the edge of self-destruction.

When Contact agent Dervley Linter decides to go native, can Diziet Sma change his mind?

@bookstodon

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00hv1dz

#Scottish #literature #sciencefiction #scifi #IainBanks #IainMBanks #TheCulture #audiobook

@bookstodon

“An Outside Context Problem was the sort of thing most civilisations encountered just once, and which they tended to encounter rather in the same way a sentence encountered a full stop…”

—Iain M. Banks, EXCESSION (1996)

#Scottish #literature #sciencefiction #IainBanks #IainMBanks #TheCulture #videogames #Civ #Civilization #SidMeier

“Sid Meier’s CIVILIZATION was one of the most addicting games of my life… I was pleasantly surprised to hear that Iain M. Banks shared the addiction and that his Culture novel EXCESSION was in part inspired by it.”

—Peter Tieryas on how Sid Meier’s CIVILIZATION helped inspire Iain M. Banks’s 1996 Culture novel EXCESSION

@bookstodon

https://reactormag.com/on-iain-m-banks-and-the-video-game-that-inspired-excession-sid-meier-civilization/

#Scottish #literature #sciencefiction #IainBanks #IainMBanks #TheCulture #videogames #Civ #Civilization #SidMeier

@bookstodon

“I mean, your society’s broken, so who should we blame? Should we blame the rich, powerful people who caused it? No let’s blame the people with no power & no money & these immigrants who don’t even have the vote, yeah it must be their fucking fault.”

—Iain Banks, the final interview

13/13

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/jun/15/iain-banks-the-final-interview

#Scottish #literature #fiction #sciencefiction #IainBanks #IainMBanks #TheCulture

@bookstodon

“Pay attention to the moments of contradiction & uncertainty threaded through character dialogue & self-reflection…Watch his tone. Watch his humour. For me, that’s where the sharpest lessons are”

—Dr Bethany Jacobs for the New Scientist

12/13

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2506129-why-sci-fi-novelist-iain-m-banks-was-an-astounding-world-builder/

#Scottish #literature #fiction #sciencefiction #IainBanks #IainMBanks #TheCulture

@bookstodon

The New Scientist Book Club read the science-fiction masterpiece THE PLAYER OF GAMES by Iain M. Banks. In this video, Iain’s friend & fellow author Ken MacLeod discusses Iain’s schooldays, his literary influences, & his idea for a final Culture novel

11/13

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7OW6A8XCgg

#Scottish #literature #fiction #sciencefiction #IainBanks #IainMBanks #TheCulture

@bookstodon

Why has Iain Banks’s Culture series – “a world where your Bezoses & your Musks are not just irrelevant, but actively sought out & disempowered” – garnered a billionaire fanbase? Kurt Schiller examines ultra-rich misreadings & delusions for Blood Knife

10/13

https://bloodknife.com/culture-war-iain-m-banks-jeff-bezos/

#Scottish #literature #fiction #sciencefiction #IainBanks #IainMBanks #TheCulture #billionaires

@bookstodon

“Our strange wee country is as complex as any alien civilization, & getting it as right as Banks did in The Crow Road required every bit as much world-building skill as his Culture”

—Simon Stephenson travels THE CROW ROAD for Reactor Magazine

9/13

https://reactormag.com/the-difference-is-entirely-one-of-setting-iain-banks-the-crow-road/

#Scottish #literature #fiction #sciencefiction #IainBanks #IainMBanks #TheCulture

@bookstodon

“Banks… envisions the overcoming of scarcity as the signal achievement of the civilization made by the Minds, & yet he focuses time and again on objects of unfulfilled desire”

—Alan Jacobs on the Ambiguous Utopia of Iain M Banks, for The New Atlantis

8/13

https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/the-ambiguous-utopia-of-iain-m-banks

#Scottish #literature #fiction #sciencefiction #IainBanks #IainMBanks #TheCulture #utopia

@bookstodon

“As a humanist, atheist, and socialist, he preferred to place his trust in techno-scientific development, rather than his faith in gods, or his capital in the market”

Joseph S. Norman on the legacy & utopianism of Iain M. Banks’s #scifi Culture series

7/13

https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2023/11/better-to-create-your-own-on-the-legacy-and-utopianism-of-iain-m-bankss-culture-series/

#Scottish #literature #fiction #sciencefiction #IainBanks #IainMBanks #TheCulture #utopia

@bookstodon

HIPPY COMMIES WITH HYPER-WEAPONS

“I think space opera in general celebrates a certain manic wildness and vivacity of vision, a refusal to be constrained”

A Few Questions About the Culture – an interview with Iain M. Banks, on Strange Horizons

6/13

http://strangehorizons.com/non-fiction/articles/a-few-questions-about-the-culture-an-interview-with-iain-banks/

#Scottish #literature #fiction #sciencefiction #IainBanks #IainMBanks #TheCulture

@bookstodon

“THE BRIDGE bends reality, breaks the rules of physics, invents technologies & plays around with impossible inventions”

—Sam Jordison explores the link between Iain Banks’s “mainstream” & science-fiction novels

5/13

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/sep/23/iain-banks-the-bridge-link-mainstream-literature-science-fiction

#Scottish #literature #fiction #sciencefiction #IainBanks #IainMBanks #TheCulture

@bookstodon

“I love plot, I love stories. I hate these novels that just stop… I don't think it’s good enough. I want closure. I don't want any of this existentialist post-modern shite, pal. I want a story, with an ending”

—an in-depth profile of Iain Banks, from 1999

4/13

https://www.theguardian.com/books/1999/aug/07/fiction.iainbanks

#Scottish #literature #fiction #sciencefiction #IainBanks #IainMBanks #TheCulture

@bookstodon

Also on BBC Sounds: Inside THE WASP FACTORY

Iain Banks’s 1984 debut THE WASP FACTORY was described in the media as “a work of unparalleled depravity” & also “a masterpiece” – both reviews ended up on the cover. Simon Pegg discusses his favourite novel

3/13

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001w71d

#Scottish #literature #fiction #sciencefiction #IainBanks #IainMBanks #TheCulture

@bookstodon

Iain’s debut novel THE WASP FACTORY was published 42 years ago today…

Available on BBC Sounds – Iain Banks discusses THE WASP FACTORY with James Naughtie & readers at the National Library of Scotland

🚨CONTAINS SPOILERS🚨 – read the book before listening!

2/13

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b016w0nf

#Scottish #literature #fiction #sciencefiction #IainBanks #IainMBanks #TheCulture

Iain M. Banks (1954–2013) was born #OTD, 16 Feb: a 🎂 🧵
1/13

“Iain Banks… is a novelist who has his own ‘double’, an author for whom the idea of a split writing persona is emphatically not out of place”

—“Reading Double, Writing Double: The Fiction of Iain (M) Banks” – a 2010 article on Banks’s genre-busting career

@bookstodon

https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2010/11/reading-double-writing-double-the-fiction-of-iain-m-banks/

#Scottish #literature #fiction #sciencefiction #IainBanks #IainMBanks #TheCulture

#1582; Limit Your Scream Time

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://wondermark.com/c/1582/