The Culture: The Drawings by Iain M. Banks
The Culture: The Drawings is a landscape artbook intended to show off the art Iain Banks created long before the novels were first published in 1987. Originally it was part of The Culture: Notes and Drawings by Iain M. Banks and Ken MacLeod.[1] It was released on 7th of November 2023.[2] 750 copies of a limited "Special Circumstances" edition were also released on 8th of February 2024,[3] which additionally contains art based on the drawings by Sébastien Garnier,[4] an art print of the System Class GSV Empiricist, 3D printing files for a M-DAWS Microdrone, information about Asteroid 5099 Iainbanks, etc.
It will be followed in 2024 by an untitled Culture companion book that features text from Ken MacLeod and an extensive selection of the author's notes, tables and charts relating to the Culture universe, as well as extracts from the novels.
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- ↑ An update regarding THE CULTURE: NOTES AND DRAWINGS, The Orbit Team, June 15, 2021
- ↑ THE CULTURE: THE DRAWINGS by Iain M. Banks, The Orbit Team, April 21, 2023
- ↑ The Culture: The Drawings - Deluxe 'Special Circumstances' Edition, Published: Feb 08 2024, Pages: 160, 506 x 342mm, ISBN: 9780356522340
- ↑ The Culture: The Drawings: Deluxe "Special Circumstances" Edition Oct 23, 2023
- https://www.orbitbooks.net/2018/02/12/acquisition-announcement-orbit-announces-publication-original-culture-drawings-estate-iain-m-banks/
- https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/feb/15/iain-m-bankss-drawings-of-the-culture-universe-to-be-published-in-2019
- https://www.scotsman.com/arts-and-culture/unseen-iain-banks-drawings-to-appear-in-new-culture-universe-book-588901
- https://www.andrewliptak.com/blog/2015/01/12/interview-with-ken-macleod-about-iain-m-banks
- http://kenmacleod.blogspot.com/2018/03/news-from-culture.html