"Use of Weapons" also got the dubious honour of being the best SF book never filmed in a poll in the Register a few years back.
Come on Hollywood, you need to make a Culture movie - I believe Banks said he'd be OK with Consider Phlebas getting a happy ending for a movie (OK apart from the 851 billion deaths, and the destruction of all of those ships, planets, orbitals, rings and stars).
I've wanted to see the escape of the Clear Air Turbulence from the Ends of Invention ever since I first read the novel 26 years ago.
Making a sensible movie of Use of Weapons would be a challenge I suspect, but could be rather good as it does have some rather cinematic scenes (e.g. Zakalwe's visit to the Ethnarch Kerian).
I hope Hollywood doesn't touch these, and some independent or little-known director actually makes them into good sci-fi. Hollywood has a way of making sci-fi laughably stupid.
Actually, I'd like to do this. Maybe I'll start by making trailers.
I tend to think about the "nice" parts of Consider Phlebas (i.e. the Culture refererer Fal 'Ngeestra) during the verses (When she was just a girl/She expected the world/But it flew away from her reach so/She ran away in her sleep) and then the extremely violent parts (Orbital's been blasted, escapes from the GSV) during the chorus (Para-para-paradise....). :-)
Come on Hollywood, you need to make a Culture movie - I believe Banks said he'd be OK with Consider Phlebas getting a happy ending for a movie (OK apart from the 851 billion deaths, and the destruction of all of those ships, planets, orbitals, rings and stars).
I've wanted to see the escape of the Clear Air Turbulence from the Ends of Invention ever since I first read the novel 26 years ago.
Making a sensible movie of Use of Weapons would be a challenge I suspect, but could be rather good as it does have some rather cinematic scenes (e.g. Zakalwe's visit to the Ethnarch Kerian).