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The Culture de Iain M. Banks

The Culture

Autor Iain M. Banks
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 7 noi 2023

Cum prinde viață o utopie interstelară înainte ca primul cuvânt să fie așezat pe hârtie? Ne-a atras atenția această colecție rară care ne oferă privilegiul de a privi direct în „creuzetul” creativ al lui Iain M. Banks. The Culture: The Drawings nu este doar un album de artă, ci o arhivă arheologică a uneia dintre cele mai complexe civilizații din literatura science-fiction. Credem că valoarea acestui volum rezidă în onestitatea schițelor: sunt desene tehnice, hărți de arhipelaguri extraterestre și diagrame de nave spațiale reproduse direct din caietele autorului din anii '70 și '80. Sistemul tehnologic al seriei, bazat pe Inteligențe Artificiale (Minds) și habitate orbitale, capătă aici o rigoare geometrică surprinzătoare. Dacă Excession v-a captivat prin amploarea confruntărilor cosmice și complexitatea Minților, această carte extinde experiența în direcția fundamentului vizual, arătând cum Iain M. Banks a proiectat manual fiecare detaliu al universului său. Ritmul lecturii este unul de explorare contemplativă; nu urmărim o intrigă, ci evoluția unui concept. Spre deosebire de romanele sale de sine stătătoare, precum The Algebraist sau Against a Dark Background, unde lumea este construită prin narațiune, aici vedem scheletul matematic și estetic pe care s-au sprijinit titluri emblematice ca The Hydrogen Sonata sau Consider Phlebas. Este o incursiune fascinantă în procesul de „worldbuilding” care explică de ce seria Culture a rămas atât de coerentă pe parcursul a trei decenii.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780316572873
ISBN-10: 031657287X
Pagini: 160
Dimensiuni: 263 x 366 x 22 mm
Greutate: 1.34 kg
Editura: Orbit

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această lucrare oricărui pasionat de design speculativ și fanilor devotați ai seriei Culture. Dincolo de valoarea estetică recunoscută prin premiul Locus, cititorul câștigă o înțelegere profundă a modului în care o minte strălucită structurează o întreagă galaxie. Este piesa lipsă din puzzle-ul literar lăsat de Banks, transformând conceptele abstracte în repere vizuale concrete.

Despre autor

Iain Banks (1954–2013) a fost un autor scoțian de o versatilitate rară, publicând ficțiune mainstream sub numele Iain Banks și science-fiction sub numele Iain M. Banks. Debutul său controversat din 1984, „The Wasp Factory”, l-a propulsat în atenția publicului, însă consacrarea în genul space opera a venit odată cu Consider Phlebas (1987), primul volum din celebra serie Culture. Recunoscut de The Times drept unul dintre cei mai importanți 50 de scriitori britanici de după 1945, Banks a creat o viziune a viitorului marcată de optimism tehnologic și dileme etice profunde, lăsând în urmă o moștenire literară care a redefinit standardele genului science-fiction modern.

Notă biografică

Iain Banks came to widespread and controversial public notice with the publication of his first novel, The Wasp Factory, in 1984. Consider Phlebas, his first science fiction novel, was published under the name Iain M. Banks in 1987 and began his celebrated ten-book Culture series. He is acclaimed as one of the most powerful, innovative and exciting writers of his generation.

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***WINNER OF THE LOCUS AWARD FOR BEST ILLUSTRATED AND ART BOOK***

This extraordinary collection celebrates the dazzling worldbuilding of Iain M. Banks, one of the most important and influential writers in modern science fiction.

Faithfully reproduced from notebooks he kept in the 1970s and 80s, these annotated original illustrations depict the ships, habitats, geography, weapons and language of Banks' Culture series of novels in incredible detail.

'Superb - well worth it for the hardcore fans. This is an incredibly well put-together collection of drawings, diagrams, notes and schematics from one of the all-time greats of science fiction and space opera. This book looks absolutely stunning and the quality is extraordinarily high. It was well worth the wait' Waterstones bookseller review

'The Culture: The Drawings pulls together his art work for the first time, and it's clear he was a very good draughtsman. Maps of alien archipelagos. Sketches of spaceships and guns and castles and tanks . . . This isn't an archive of ideas so much as the melting pot from which ideas came' The Times

'Banks was a dude who loved his whisky and his amateur draftsmanship has some of the character of cask spirit: raw and unrefined but heady and intoxicating' Eurogamer

'The Culture series is incredible and this book goes to show how the books could be so intricate and consistent. He designed the whole universe by hand' Reader review

Praise for the Culture series:

'Epic in scope, ambitious in its ideas and absorbing in its execution' Independent on Sunday

'Few of us have been exposed to a talent so manifest and of such extraordinary breadth' New York Review of Science Fiction

'Banks's sci-fi, at its best, is staggeringly inventive, beautifully written, dramatic and often very funny. His stories are packed with ideas, warships with minds very much of their own, alien races, charismatic drones and intergalactic politics' New Scientist

'Jam-packed with extraordinary invention' Scotsman

'Banks has created one of the most enduring and endearing visions of the future' Guardian

The Culture series:
Consider Phlebas
The Player of Games
Use of Weapons
The State of the Art
Excession
Inversions
Look to Windward
Matter
Surface Detail
The Hydrogen Sonata

Other books by Iain M. Banks:
Against a Dark Background
Feersum Endjinn
The Algebraist

***Also, look out for the Deluxe 'Special Circumstances' Edition of The Culture: The Drawings. This ultimate, limited collector's edition includes an exclusive, numbered, cloth-bound edition of The Culture: The Drawings in a sumptuous presentation case, a booklet of original Culture-inspired artwork, specially commissioned 3D printing files and many other Culture-inspired features***

Recenzii

Superb - well worth it for the hardcore fans. This is an incredibly well put-together collection of drawings, diagrams, notes and schematics from one of the all-time greats of Science Fiction and Space Opera. This book looks absolutely stunning and the quality is extraordinarily high. It was well worth the wait
The recent publication of behind-the-curtain coffee table tome The Culture: The Drawings [collates] his earliest conceptual designs for what would become his signature sci-fi creation. Banks was apparently a habitual scribbler and doodler, conjuring crude but detailed geographical maps, architectural drafts, spaceship designs, weapons prototypes and the sketched-out foundations for an entire glyph-based language . . . His amateur draftsmanship has some of the character of cask spirit: raw and unrefined but heady and intoxicating
A beautiful book. If you enjoy The Culture, have been immersed in it and moved by it, I doubt you will be disappointed in the book
Banks has created one of the most enduring and endearing visions of the future
Jam-packed with extraordinary invention
Epic in scope, ambitious in its ideas and absorbing in its execution
Few of us have been exposed to a talent so manifest and of such extraordinary breadth
The first glimmerings of the Culture emerged from young Banksie's schoolboy doodlings. The Culture: The Drawings pulls together his art work for the first time, and it's clear he was a very good draughtsman. Maps of alien archipelagos. Sketches of spaceships and guns and castles and tanks. Although the contents are arranged by broad themes (Locales, Ships, Transport, Weaponry and the rest), there has been (wisely, I think) no attempt to explain the material further. What is that Second World War-era battle tank doing on the ramparts of Thra-dra-Ostlehep? Who knows? This isn't an archive of ideas so much as the melting pot from which ideas came