《대수학자》는 이언 M. 뱅크스가 2004년에 발표한 SF 소설로, 기존의 '컬처' 시리즈와 별개인 스페이스 오페라이다. 2005년 휴고상 최고의 장편상 후보에 올랐다. 2004년 인터뷰에서 뱅크스는 "3부작이 될 가능성도 있으나, 현재로선 오직 이 작품뿐이다"라고 말했다. 한국에서는 2010년 열린책들에서 …
Excession, first published in 1996, is Scottish writer Iain M. Banks's fourth science fiction novel to feature the Culture, a fictional interstellar society. It concerns the response of the Culture and other interstellar societies to an unprecedented alien artifact, the Excession of the title. The book is largely …
Use of Weapons is a science fiction novel by Scottish writer Iain M. Banks, first published in 1990 as the third novel in the Culture series.
The Culture - a human/machine symbiotic society - has thrown up many great Game Players, and one of the greatest is Gurgeh. Jernau Morat Gurgeh. The Player of Games. Master of every board, computer and strategy. Bored with success, Gurgeh travels to the Empire of Azad, cruel and incredibly wealthy, to try their …
Consider Phlebas, first published in 1987, is a space opera novel by Scottish writer Iain M. Banks. Written after a 1984 draft, it is the first to feature the Culture. The novel revolves around the Idiran-Culture War, and Banks plays on that theme by presenting various microcosms of that conflict. Its protagonist Bora …