Iain Banks writes books about sex and drugs. Iain M Banks is a sci-fi nerd. Are they by any chance related?
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Iain Banks writes books about sex and drugs. Iain M Banks is a sci-fi nerd. Are they by any chance related?
In the Culture universe, all forms of sentient life, including AIs and non-humanoid life forms, have what Banks calls a soul.
from The Transgressive Iain Banks: Essays on a Writer Beyond Borders by Katharine Cox
- Summing up: Banks’s conception of the Culture is driven by three central ideas. First, there is the thought that, in the future, basic problems of social organization will be given essentially technocratic solutions, and so the competition between cultures will be based upon their viral qualities, not their functional attributes. Second, there is p... See more
from Why the Culture Wins: An Appreciation of Iain M. Banks by Joseph Heath
Packy McCormick added
Refreshingly Unconcerned With The Vulgar Exigencies Of Veracity,
from The Hydrogen Sonata (A Culture Novel Book 9) by Iain M. Banks