Iain M. Banks
The Culture: The Drawings : The Locus Award Winner Hardback Book
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WINNER OF THE LOCUS AWARD FOR BEST ILLUSTRATED AND ART BOOKThis extraordinary collection celebrates the dazzling worldbuilding of Iain M. Banks, one of the most important and influential writers in modern science fiction.Faithfully 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.Superb well worth it for the hardcore fans. This is an incredibly well puttogether collection of drawings, diagrams, notes and schematics from one of the alltime greats of science fiction and space opera. This book looks absolutely stunning and the quality is extraordinarily high. It was well worth the wait Waterstones bookseller reviewThe Culture The Drawings pulls together his art work for the first time, and its clear he was a very good draughtsman. Maps of alien archipelagos. Sketches of spaceships and guns and castles and tanks . . . This isnt an archive of ideas so much as the melting pot from which ideas came The TimesBanks 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 EurogamerThe 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 Reader reviewPraise for the Culture seriesEpic in scope, ambitious in its ideas and absorbing in its...
Binding: Hardback;160 pages; Publisher: Hachette UK Distribution; Classification: FL; Weight: 1442 g; Dimensions: 258 x 363 x 22
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WINNER OF THE LOCUS AWARD FOR BEST ILLUSTRATED AND ART BOOKThis extraordinary collection celebrates the dazzling worldbuilding of Iain M. Banks, one of the most important and influential writers in modern science fiction.Faithfully 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.Superb well worth it for the hardcore fans. This is an incredibly well puttogether collection of drawings, diagrams, notes and schematics from one of the alltime greats of science fiction and space opera. This book looks absolutely stunning and the quality is extraordinarily high. It was well worth the wait Waterstones bookseller reviewThe Culture The Drawings pulls together his art work for the first time, and its clear he was a very good draughtsman. Maps of alien archipelagos. Sketches of spaceships and guns and castles and tanks . . . This isnt an archive of ideas so much as the melting pot from which ideas came The TimesBanks 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 EurogamerThe 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 Reader reviewPraise for the Culture seriesEpic in scope, ambitious in its ideas and absorbing in its...
Binding: Hardback;160 pages; Publisher: Hachette UK Distribution; Classification: FL; Weight: 1442 g; Dimensions: 258 x 363 x 22
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Iain M. Banks
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