이언 뱅크스

말벌공장은 스코틀랜드 작가 이언 뱅크스의 첫 소설 작품이다. 1984년에 출판되었으며 모두 12개의 챕터로 구성되어 있다. 대한민국에서는 열린책들을 통해 2005년 1월에 출판되었다. 일인칭 관점에서 쓰인 이 소설은 성적으로 불구라고 여기는 16살 소년 프랭크가 그의 어린 시절에 대해 이야기하고 …

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 …

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 …

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.

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 …

《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 …

Look to Windward is a science fiction novel by Scottish writer Iain M. Banks, first published in 2000. It is Banks' sixth published novel to feature the Culture. The book's dedication reads: "For the Gulf War Veterans".

From its bravura opening onwards, THE CROW ROAD is justly regarded as an outstanding contemporary novel. 'It was the day my grandmother exploded. I sat in the crematorium, listening to my Uncle Hamish quietly snoring in harmony to Bach's Mass in B Minor, and I reflected that it always seemed to be death that drew me …

Matter is a science fiction novel from Iain M. Banks set in his Culture universe. It was published on 25 January 2008. Matter was a finalist for the 2009 Prometheus Award.

Inversions is a science fiction novel by Scottish writer Iain M. Banks, first published in 1998. Banks has said "Inversions was an attempt to write a Culture novel that wasn't."