{"product_id":"9780356519425","title":"The Culture: The Drawings","description":"Author: Iain M. Banks\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9780356519425\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Little Brown\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 23 Jan 2024\u003cbr\u003ePages: 160 \u003cbr\u003eFormat: Hardback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e***WINNER OF THE LOCUS AWARD FOR BEST ILLUSTRATED AND ART BOOK***\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis extraordinary collection celebrates the dazzling worldbuilding of Iain M. Banks, one of the most important and influential writers in modern science fiction.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\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. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eIt was well worth the wait'\u003c\/b\u003e Waterstones bookseller review\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\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'\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\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' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eEurogamer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\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'\u003c\/b\u003e Reader review\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePraise for the Culture series:\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cb\u003e'Few of us have been exposed to a talent so manifest and of such extraordinary breadth' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Review of Science Fiction\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cb\u003e'Jam-packed with extraordinary invention'\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003eScotsman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cb\u003e'Banks has created one of the most enduring and endearing visions of the future'\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cu\u003eThe Culture series:\u003c\/u\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ci\u003eConsider Phlebas\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The Player of Games\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Use of Weapons\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The State of the Art\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Excession\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Inversions\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Look to Windward\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Matter\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Surface Detail\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The Hydrogen Sonata\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cu\u003eOther books by Iain M. Banks:\u003c\/u\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ci\u003eAgainst a Dark Background\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Feersum Endjinn\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The Algebraist\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e***\u003c\/b\u003eAlso, look out for the \u003cb\u003eDeluxe 'Special Circumstances' Edition of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Culture: The Drawings\u0026lt;\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46469653463198,"sku":"ADS-9780356519425","price":109.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9780356519425.jpg?v=1770099584","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9780356519425","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}