at last! after several trips to the Andromeda bookshop in Brum i managed to pick up a copy of The Culture, the Iain M Banks fanzine i mentioned oh, months and...
fascinating information - I'll definitely be looking into this!<br><br>By the way, I'm just coming to the end of Consider Phlebas (for the second time) and ...
Right - I've finished re-reading CP and there appear to be some anomalies with what we understand to be Culture culture:<br>* Orbitals are generally accepted...
>So - although it isn't actually explained <br>>anywhere, it appears that Vavatch is either some <br>>kind of copy of a Culture orbital complete with ...
> Or they were part of the culture but seceded...?<br><br>A good theory - possibly better than my 2 attempts! I guess if they were ex-Culture, they must...
>> Or they were part of the culture but seceded...?<br><br>> A good theory - possibly better than my 2<br>>attempts! I guess if they were...
>> Or maybe its just because it was IMB's first culture novel and he hadnt worked out the details...? <br><br>Well, yeah, I think this is obviously true....
>But he must have had _some_ history & politics for Vavatch - unfortunately, whatever it was isn't very clear.<br><br>hmm, i disagree. i've been re-reading...
i've been re-reading some of Iain's books recently, and i've come to the conclusion that he's just (shock!) making them up as he goes along....sorry, i get all...
>>It's just that so much of his stuff seems pretty well thought out compared to, say, stuff by Douglas Adams, bless his soul, who admitted to not having ...
I listened to Radio5 on Monday 13.8.01 & Kevin Greening interviewed Mr Banks. He was promoting the paperback of LTWW so Tim, I hope you get it in yer mits ...
Iain Banks was on the Today programme ealier this week (tuesday I think). They were discussing Utopias for some reason, apparently Banks's Culture was ...
The culture is definetly a utopian society and one of the few contempory ones to my knowledge that doesn't make dire warnings about technology or society, ...
Doesnt the presence of conflict per se preclude a society being utopian? Or is there some sort of threshold....?<br><br>What about the Idiran (sp?) war, that...
If he likes to get about in the warmth of a scottish summer, but then starts to write when it gets colder and wetter, then he must be writing for about 50...
Hmm, I dunno. The Culture is a peaceful, utopian society on the inside. The problem comes when it runs up against an agressive external force. In the books...
Song of Stone really is a gloomy novel with a terrible end. Most tension derived from the hope, the storyteller might be able to change the course of action...
Congratulations for having founded this fine club. It's a shame You all went away and didn't come back for three months by now because I had a lot of fun...
Sorry, I probably won't be able to come to the chatroom on Sunday 25th November 2001 at 9:00 pm, though J will try to. See You soon, hopefully. kasom...
Hi all<br><br>Well, it was on the cards a while ago but Y! have officially announced the end of the clubs as we know them. Don't know how it'll affect our ...
Well Nick, why is CP my favourite novel? As a matter of fact, I like all the books of Iain Banks very much, there are only slight differences. Maybee it is ...
>>Do we have to form a group? Or will this be done for us...? <br><br>I think that Yahoo will do all the setting up for us but we're going to have to get...
Hi Kasom<br><br>Yes, CP was a pretty good start, but for me Mr Banks built on this initial foundation in subsequent books. Have you read Look to Windward? ...
>>Do we have to form a group? Or will this be >>done for us...? <br><br>>I think that Yahoo will do all the setting up >for us but we're ...
sigh...still waiting for that next book. i'm running out of stuff to read...just finished 'Revelation Space' and 'Chasm City' by Alastair Reynolds..okay, i ...
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