Amazon to adapt Ian M Banks culture series into a series.

Destination · 9 Mar 2018 at 18:18

Remind me, is the algebraest not a culture novel, just set post culture in the same continunim?
Do they not direct reference the culture and their demise? And isn’t the main reveal of ‘the twin’ not a straight up culture remnant?

PlacidCasual · 9 Mar 2018 at 18:52

PinkFloyd said:
I never managed to finish Feersum Endjinn. The weird style of writing from one characters perspective just completely put me off trying to get through it. All the other books are cracking though!

I’m with you on that one. Still never finished it.

Steampunk · 9 Mar 2018 at 19:27

Destination said:
Remind me, is the algebraest not a culture novel, just set post culture in the same continunim?
Do they not direct reference the culture and their demise? And isn’t the main reveal of ‘the twin’ not a straight up culture remnant?

No, it's not a Culture novel. Just like Against A Dark Background, the Culture isn't referenced at all. You may be getting confused because there is talk of long lost empires and various factions that have all used the wormhole network that is used for FTL travel. When a system loses it's wormhole, it gets cut off and all kinds of things can arise from a cut off civilisation.

Destination · 9 Mar 2018 at 20:49

Indeed, but I thought they specifically referenced the Culture at one point, speaking of them being 'distant' and 'past', and the suggestion was one of the worlds had been turned over in its defence to AI twins, which were basically minds who paired up, so they were not driven insane by the tedium of hiding their AIness for most of eternity, HG being one such 'twin' refugee.

Somnambulist · 9 Mar 2018 at 23:38

It's not set in the Culture universe, same as Against a Dark Background and Feersum Endjinn; humans have spread across the galaxy. In the Culture universe, 1970's Earth features in one of the stories in The State of The Art and was presumably Contact-ed at some point.

SPG · 16 Nov 2020 at 10:41

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2...ion-of-iain-banks-culture-series-is-cancelled

GOD DAMMIT JUST GOD DAMMIT !!!!

Steampunk · 16 Nov 2020 at 11:06

SPG said:
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2...ion-of-iain-banks-culture-series-is-cancelled

GOD DAMMIT JUST GOD DAMMIT !!!!

They probably would have screwed it up anyway.

SPG · 16 Nov 2020 at 12:42

Maybe.

Maybe Disney could pick it up and use some of their technology in the making of mandaboringion to bring it to life.

But reading the article it seems its the estate holding back it on. We will never know the reasoning behind it, hopefully they pulled back due to the budget not being big enough

darkgen · 17 Nov 2020 at 10:48

Gutted. Maybe it's just deferred for a year or two.

IvanDobskey · 18 Nov 2020 at 06:56

Gutted about this being cancelled

Banks books have so much potential for a great TV series. Oh well, maybe one day.

Steampunk · 18 Nov 2020 at 08:55

SPG said:
Maybe.

Maybe Disney could pick it up and use some of their technology in the making of mandaboringion to bring it to life.

But reading the article it seems its the estate holding back it on. We will never know the reasoning behind it, hopefully they pulled back due to the budget not being big enough

I would guess that like the early Tolkein or Herbert estates, they had a final veto over everything, and were not happy to let a production company simply grab a few bits and pieces, a general background and a few characters, and then mash it up into something that are not the books.

We've seen it happen plenty of times before, where the rights to a beloved book is sold to a TV or movie production company, and it's gets cut up into something unrecognisable that does a great disservice to the original source material. Maybe Banks' estate simply didn't like the direction things were going in, and had demands to keep to the source material, and the production company didn't want to spend that kind of money at a time when the industry is in such turmoil due to the pandemic.