Bezos is not the only billionaire fan of Banks’s sci-fi series: Elon Musk named his SpaceX drone ships after starships from the Culture novels, including the vessel Just Read the Instructions. Banks would publish 10 Culture books under the name Iain M Banks.Īmazon CEO Jeff Bezos described the series as “a huge personal favourite” when the television deal was announced in 2018. After publishing well-received novels including The Wasp Factory in 1984, he introduced the world to the universe of Culture, a post-scarcity, hedonistic society run by benevolent AIs, in his first sci-fi novel, Consider Phlebas. “The estate is hugely grateful for all the care and creative energy that went into the early stages of the project.”īanks died in 2013 aged 59, two months after revealing that he had terminal cancer. “The interest and devotion that Iain’s work continues to inspire is a testament to the enduring relevance of his ideas and imagination,” said Banks’s estate.
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