Matter is a novel from Iain Banks, under the name Iain M. Banks. A science fiction novel, it is the latest in his popular Culture series. It was published on 25 January 2008.
Matter is a finalist for the 2009 Prometheus Award.
From an interview with The Guardian newspaper at the Hay Literary Festival on 25 May 2007:
Banks tells me that he has spent the past three months writing another Culture novel. It will be called Matter and is to be publishe...
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Matter is a novel from Iain Banks, under the name Iain M. Banks. A science fiction novel, it is the latest in his popular Culture series. It was published on 25 January 2008.
Matter is a finalist for the 2009 Prometheus Award.
From an interview with The Guardian newspaper at the Hay Literary Festival on 25 May 2007:
Banks tells me that he has spent the past three months writing another Culture novel. It will be called Matter and is to be published next February. "It's a real shelf-breaker," he says enthusiastically. "It's 204,000 words long and the last 4,000 consist of appendices and glossaries. It's so complicated that even in its complexity it's complex. I'm not sure the publishers will go for the appendices, but readers will need them. It's filled with neologisms and characters who disappear for 150 pages and come back, with lots of flashbacks and -forwards. And the story involves different civilisations at different stages of technological evolution. There's even one group who...
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