Iain Banks Culture series
Origine: Culture series, Use of Weapons (1990), Chapter V (p. 303).
Iain Banks è stato uno scrittore scozzese, conosciuto soprattutto per le sue storie di fantascienza, che ha firmato come Iain M. Banks e fantastico ma attivo ed apprezzato anche sul fronte mainstream.
Considerato da molti critici e lettori l'autore più importante emerso negli anni ottanta nella fantascienza britannica, la sua creazione più famosa è l'universo futuro del ciclo della Cultura all'interno del quale sono ambientati molti dei suoi romanzi. Nel 2008 The Times lo ha nominato nella lista dei "50 maggiori scrittori britannici dal 1945". Wikipedia

Iain Banks Culture series
Origine: Culture series, Use of Weapons (1990), Chapter V (p. 303).
Iain Banks Culture series
Origine: Culture series, Use of Weapons (1990), Chapter Twelve (p. 390).
Iain Banks Culture series
She would smile), But the feelings, the acts, the structure of the two were to him so close, so self-evidently akin, that such a reaction only forced him deeper into his confusion.
Origine: Culture series, Use of Weapons (1990), Chapter IX (pp. 144-145).
Iain Banks Culture series
Origine: Culture series, Excession (1996), Chapter 5 “Kiss the Blade” section IV (p. 151).
“Piece” (p. 74)
Short fiction, The State of the Art (1991)
Iain Banks Culture series
Origine: Culture series, Inversions (1998), Chapter 9 (p. 158)
Iain Banks Culture series
Origine: Culture series, Use of Weapons (1990), Chapter XII (p. 65).
Iain Banks Culture series
Origine: Culture series, The Player of Games (1988), Chapter 2 (p. 277).
Iain Banks Culture series
Origine: Culture series, Inversions (1998), Chapter 7 (pp. 125-126)
Iain Banks Culture series
Origine: Culture series, Excession (1996), Chapter 11 “Regarding Gravious” section VI (p. 364).
““I’m very sorry,” the drone said, without a trace of contrition.”
Iain Banks Culture series
Origine: Culture series, The Player of Games (1988), Chapter 3 (p. 308).
Iain Banks Culture series
Origine: Culture series, Excession (1996), Chapter 3 “Uninvited Guests” section I (p. 66).
Iain Banks Culture series
Origine: Culture series, Use of Weapons (1990), Chapter I (p. 443).
Iain Banks Culture series
Origine: Culture series, Excession (1996), Chapter 4 “Dependency Principle” section V (p. 129).
“What they had talked themselves into, they could be silent out of.”
Iain Banks Culture series
Origine: Culture series, Use of Weapons (1990), Chapter IX (p. 157).
“State of the Art” (p. 112)
Short fiction, The State of the Art (1991)
Iain Banks Culture series
Origine: Culture series, Excession (1996), Chapter 5 “Kiss the Blade” section III (p. 149).
Iain Banks Culture series
Origine: Culture series, Excession (1996), Chapter 11 “Regarding Gravious” section VI (p. 365).
“Perhaps my certainty is misplaced.”
Iain Banks Culture series
Epilogue (p. 399)
Culture series, Inversions (1998)
Iain Banks Culture series
Origine: Culture series, Excession (1996), Chapter 2 “Not Invented Here” section II (p. 58).
Iain Banks Culture series
Origine: Culture series, Inversions (1998), Chapter 20 (p. 335)
“Beauty is something that disappears when you try to define it.”
Origine: Short fiction, The State of the Art (1991) “State of the Art” (p. 128)
Iain Banks Culture series
Origine: Culture series, Inversions (1998), Chapter 2 (p. 37)
Iain Banks Culture series
Origine: Culture series, Consider Phlebas (1987), Chapter 2 “The Hand of God 137” (p. 32).
“You can draw the blinds in a brothel, but people still know what you’re doing.”
Iain Banks Culture series
Origine: Culture series, Inversions (1998), Chapter 4 (p. 69)
Iain Banks Culture series
Origine: Culture series, Excession (1996), Chapter 7 “Tier” section III (p. 219).
Iain Banks Culture series
Origine: Culture series, Excession (1996), Chapter 7 “Tier” section II (p. 212).
“Descendant” (pp. 47-48)
Short fiction, The State of the Art (1991)
Iain Banks Culture series
Origine: Culture series, Use of Weapons (1990), Chapter IX (p. 148).
“Reason shapes the future, but superstition infects the present.”
“Piece” (p. 75)
Short fiction, The State of the Art (1991)