The Culture: Notes and Drawings

It's a bit frustrating as I'm half way through a re-read of all the Culture books and it would have been nice to have had this before I started!
 
Vince W said:
Definitely. I've been toying with the idea of a complete re-read myself.
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It's actually quite interesting as the first time I read them it was in a pretty haphazard order (it was Banks's SF that was one of the major movers in getting me back into reading after a long hiatus) whereas I doing my reread in strictly published order and it's quite illuminating to see how he developed the idea of the Culture. The most recent one I read was Excession and I felt that was really the first 'mature' Culture novel in that it was the first one where the Minds played a really significant role and many other aspects of the Culture really settled in.
 
Vertigo said:
It's actually quite interesting as the first time I read them it was in a pretty haphazard order (it was Banks's SF that was one of the major movers in getting me back into reading after a long hiatus) whereas I doing my reread in strictly published order and it's quite illuminating to see how he developed the idea of the Culture. The most recent one I read was Excession and I felt that was really the first 'mature' Culture novel in that it was the first one where the Minds played a really significant role and many other aspects of the Culture really settled in.
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I've only ever read them in publication order (no choice) and it's the order I always recommend. I will admit though, that after reading most of the Culture once and then going back and starting again, books like Consider Phlebas are even better after you understand what the Culture is. They were to me anyway.
 
Vince W said:
I've only ever read them in publication order (no choice) and it's the order I always recommend. I will admit though, that after reading most of the Culture once and then going back and starting again, books like Consider Phlebas are even better after you understand what the Culture is. They were to me anyway.
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Well I also had no choice with the latter ones once I was hooked. But many of them were already written when I first came across them. Banks almost immediately become one of my favourite authors, in fact one of my earliest post on here was non SF and about Banks's Raw Spirit.
 
Vertigo said:
Well I also had no choice with the latter ones once I was hooked. But many of them were already written when I first came across them. Banks almost immediately become one of my favourite authors, in fact one of my earliest post on here was non SF and about Banks's Raw Spirit.
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I still haven't read Raw Spirit, but I keep intending to.
 
Vertigo said:
It's very interesting and curiously gives a few insights to his SF writing as well. I seem to recall he recounts the inspiration for the rotating fire planet in Player of Games.
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Are there any photos in the book? If there are then I would need to pick up a dead tree version. Or would the kindle version be adequate?
 
It's all text, so ebook would be fine, there aren't even maps so Google is your friend if you want to figure out where he is. Or where his GWRs are (Great Wee Roads - lovely driving roads).
 
I just received notification from Amazon that this is now expected to ship on October 14th 2021.
 
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