The Culture: The Drawings

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Baker, Neal (2003), "Review of Dark Light", in Butler, Andrew M.; Mendelsohn, Farah (eds.), The True Knowledge of Ken MacLeod, Reading, UK: Science Fiction Foundation, pp.95–97, ISBN 978-0903007023 .

Musk conversation with Rishi Sunak at the UK AI Summit, 2/11/23. https://edition.cnn.com/2023/11/02/tech/elon-musk-conversation-british-prime-minister-rishi-sunak-artificial-intelligence/index.html Banks in an interview stated, "This one takes place about eight hundred years later on in the chronology of the culture"; at the time he was speaking the latest book in the culture chronology was set around 2167 ( Parsons 2010) Allberry, Russ (2005-11-18), "Review: The Player of Games by Iain M. Banks", Eyrie , retrieved 2009-02-17 . Author Iain M. Banks revealed in April 2013 that he had late-stage cancer. He died the following June.The first release will be a beautiful, full-colour, large-format landscape artbook called The Culture: The Drawings, which will present Iain’s drawings exactly as he intended them to be seen. The Culture is a society formed by various humanoid species and artificial intelligences about 9,000years before the events of novels in the series. Since the majority of its biological population can have almost anything they want without the need to work, there is little need for laws or enforcement, and the culture is described by Banks as space socialism. [1] [2] It features a post-scarcity economy [a] where technology is advanced to such a degree that all production is automated. [1] Its members live mainly in spaceships and other off-planet constructs, because its founders wished to avoid the centralised political and corporate power-structures that planet-based economies foster. [1] Most of the planning and administration is done by Minds, very advanced AIs. [3]

Idolatry is worse than carnage" is presented as a translation of "The Koran, 2: 190"; but is actually a misplaced reference to Quran 2:191, even then, modern scholars regard it as inaccurate, since the word translated as "idolatry" actually means "discord" or "oppression" or "persecution" ( Duggan 2007)An exclusive, individually-numbered edition of The Culture: The Drawings bound in a cloth and foil cover, with foiled endpapers and a Marain ribbon marker Look to Windward uses three commentators on the Culture, a near-immortal Behemothaur, a member of the race plunged into civil war by a Culture intervention that went wrong, and the ambassador of a race at similar technological level to the Culture's. [20] Not explicitly a Culture novel, but recounts what appear to be the activities of a Special Circumstances agent and a Culture emigrant on a planet whose development is roughly equivalent to that of medieval Europe. The interwoven stories are told from the viewpoint of several of the locals. [14] Duggan, Robert (2007-12-22), "Iain M. Banks, Postmodernism and the Gulf War", Extrapolation, 48 (3): 558–577, doi: 10.3828/extr.2007.48.3.12 .

Arevalo, Evelyn (2021-07-09), "Elon Musk Shows Off New SpaceX Falcon 9 Autonomous Droneship -'A Shortfall Of Gravitas' ", Tesmanian . A further tribute was paid by the Five Deeps Expedition which named all of its craft after Culture ships and drones. [46] The book states that the events of Look to Windward occurred about 600 years earlier ("However, as part of what were in effect war reparations after the Chel debacle, six hundred years ago..."), and repeatedly refers to the Idiran war as occurring about 1500 years earlier; the war formally ended in 1375. Parsons, Michael (2010-10-14), "Interview: Iain M Banks talks 'Surface Detail' with Wired", Wired , retrieved 2021-08-02 .

Few of us have been exposed to a talent so manifest and of such extraordinary breadth' New York Review of Science Fiction Orbit presents this deluxe 'Special Circumstances' limited edition of The Culture: The Drawings, available worldwide exclusively from the Orbit UK store. As fans of Iain M. Banks’ vastly popular Culture series will be aware, Iain painstakingly designed every element of the Culture’s universe long before the novels were first published. From ships to weapons, language to nomenclature, flora to fauna, the whole of the Culture existed in the form of intricate sketches, notes, tables and charts, many years ahead of its appearance in fiction.