{"title":"Books by Iain M. Banks","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9780356519425","title":"The Culture: The Drawings","description":"\u003cp\u003eWINNER OF THE LOCUS AWARD FOR BEST ILLUSTRATED AND ART BOOK\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis extraordinary collection celebrates the dazzling worldbuilding of Iain M. Banks, one of the most important and influential writers in modern science fiction.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFaithfully 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Superb - well worth it for the hardcore fans. This is an incredibly well put-together collection of drawings, diagrams, notes and schematics from one of the all-time greats of science fiction and space opera. This book looks absolutely stunning and the quality is extraordinarily high. It was well worth the wait' Waterstones bookseller review\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'\u003ci\u003eThe Culture: The Drawings\u003c\/i\u003e pulls together his art work for the first time, and it's clear he was a very good draughtsman. Maps of alien archipelagos. Sketches of spaceships and guns and castles and tanks . . . This isn't an archive of ideas so much as the melting pot from which ideas came' \u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Banks was a dude who loved his whisky and his amateur draftsmanship has some of the character of cask spirit: raw and unrefined but heady and intoxicating' \u003ci\u003eEurogamer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'The Culture series is incredible and this book goes to show how the books could be so intricate and consistent. He designed the whole universe by hand' Reader review\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePraise for the Culture series:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Epic in scope, ambitious in its ideas and absorbing in its execution' \u003ci\u003eIndependent on Sunday\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  'Few of us have been exposed to a talent so manifest and of such extraordinary breadth' \u003ci\u003eNew York Review of Science Fiction\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Banks's sci-fi, at its best, is staggeringly inventive, beautifully written, dramatic and often very funny. His stories are packed with ideas, warships with minds very much of their own, alien races, charismatic drones and intergalactic politics' \u003ci\u003eNew Scientist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  'Jam-packed with extraordinary invention' \u003ci\u003eScotsman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  'Banks has created one of the most enduring and endearing visions of the future' \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Culture series:\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eConsider Phlebas\u003cbr\u003e The Player of Games\u003cbr\u003e Use of Weapons\u003cbr\u003e The State of the Art\u003cbr\u003e Excession\u003cbr\u003e Inversions\u003cbr\u003e Look to Windward\u003cbr\u003e Matter\u003cbr\u003e Surface Detail\u003cbr\u003e The Hydrogen Sonata\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Other books by Iain M. Banks:\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAgainst a Dark Background\u003cbr\u003e Feersum Endjinn\u003cbr\u003e The Algebraist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlso, look out for the Deluxe 'Special Circumstances' Edition of \u003ci\u003eThe Culture: The Drawings. \u003c\/i\u003eThis ultimate, limited collector's edition includes an exclusive, numbered, cloth-bound edition of \u003ci\u003eThe Culture: The Drawings\u003c\/i\u003e in a sumptuous presentation case, a booklet of original Culture-inspired artwork, specially commissioned 3D printing files and many other Culture-inspired features\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43201703641266,"sku":"9780356519425","price":50.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780356519425.jpg?v=1786014064"},{"product_id":"9780356521640","title":"The Player Of Games","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe novels of Iain M. Banks have forever changed the face of modern science fiction. His Culture books combine breathtaking imagination with exceptional storytelling, and have secured his reputation as one of the most extraordinary and influential writers in the genre.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Banks is a phenomenon'\u003c\/b\u003e William Gibson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The Culture - a utopian human-machine symbiotic society - has thrown up many expert Game Players, and one of the greatest is Jernau Morat Gurgeh. He is Master of every board, computer and strategy - he is The Player of Games.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBored with success, Gurgeh travels to the cruel and incredibly wealthy Empire of Azad to try their infamous game . . . a game so complex, so like life itself, that the winner becomes emperor. Mocked, blackmailed, almost murdered, Gurgeh plays the game, and faces the challenge of his life - and very possibly his death.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Praise for the Culture series:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e'Epic in scope, ambitious in its ideas and absorbing in its execution' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eIndependent on Sunday\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 'Banks has created one of the most enduring and endearing visions of the future' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Banks's sci-fi, at its best, is staggeringly inventive, beautifully written, dramatic and often very funny. His stories are packed with ideas, warships with minds very much of their own, alien races, charismatic drones and intergalactic politics\u003c\/b\u003e' \u003ci\u003eNew Scientist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e 'Jam-packed with extraordinary invention' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eScotsman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 'Compulsive reading' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eSunday Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Culture series:\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eConsider Phlebas\u003cbr\u003eThe Player of Games\u003cbr\u003eUse of Weapons\u003cbr\u003eExcession\u003cbr\u003eInversions\u003cbr\u003eLook to Windward\u003cbr\u003eMatter\u003cbr\u003eSurface Detail\u003cbr\u003eThe Hydrogen Sonata\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe State of the Art\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eOther books by Iain M. 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