The Culture of Iain M Banks

Hippies. With guns. And super-computers. That's the Culture.

The thing about genius is there’s nothing else like it.

Iain Banks was a genius of science fiction. It takes a few generations for genius to appear in any field. The Mozarts and Einsteins need the shoulders of giants to stand upon.

Iain Banks stood on the shoulders of Wells, Stapledon, Asimov, Le Guin, Niven and others, and raised science fiction to its h…