This section covers anything that didn't quite fit into the others, so the scope here is pretty large. Anything vaguely relating to the Culture (AI's, utopias, etc.), conventions, other fiction recommendations, ...; anything, really.

general information relating to iain banks

An email list about Iain [M] Banks is available courtesy of Dan Polivy. It's a place for any questions, idle chat, hopeful rumours and general Banks glorification. You can subscribe by emailing culture-request@busstop.org with the word 'subscribe' in the subject field. Once you have joined, send your questions and answers to culture@busstop.org. See you there! There is now an Iain Banks Usenet newsgroup. As it is part of the alt.* hierachy, it isn't available at all sites but it's well worth trying. Check out alt.books.iain-banks Occasional Banks information sometimes turns up on the rec.arts.sf.written and rec.arts.sf.fandom newsgroups. Or you can view the whole rec.arts.sf.* hierachy

information that ties in loosely with banks' novels...

Here is a great site on Future Studies, they have a nice collection of links to related sites. There's a glut of information on utopias and their nasty counterparts, dystopias at the Center for Utopian/Dystopian Studies Lots of information on our large-eyed, grey friends - check out the Alien Information site The Artificial Intelligence homepage at Georgia Tech Achieve immortality - upload your consciousness. Do you wish you had drug glands, could change sex and could turn off pain at will? Well, I can't help you with the last two but you can go some way to re-creating the first by checking out the drugs archive at Hyperreal...

and if you've had enough of banks?

Unlikely, but if you do, you might want to know of some authors whose work share similarities with Iains. This list was composed by those on the Culture email list. | Culture Shock | | News | Banks | Credits | Bibliography | subCulture | Consider this |