I set up a Google Alert (now an obsolete Google tech, but still working) to track any web news about Iain Banks’ new book Surface Detail. Very few uses of the phrase “surface detail” relate to his book though. I am either getting stuff about astronomy/photography like: Photo Tips for Shooting the Moon Or stuff [...]

A good summary of Iain Bank’s career at this site about the Edinburgh Festival. Unfortunately not many snippets about Surface Detail though. All we get is: His next book is Surface Detail, a Culture novel(released 7 October 2010). The utopian Culture, he tells us was created to reclaim the moral high ground of space opera where [...]

You might have heard that there’s a new Culture novel from Iain Banks coming out later this year (October 2010). It’s called Surface Detail and here’s the info about it on his site at the moment: Surface Detail It begins in the realm of the Real, where matter still matters. It begins with a murder. [...]

Very intriguing! As a fan of Iain Banks (see my article on his Wasp Factory), and also a writer of Science Fiction and Fantasy, this is an amazing insight into the mind of one of the world’s best SF writers. I was really interested in how Iain wrote his books – did he plan meticulously, [...]