The Culture. The Culture is a fictional interstellar anarchist utopian[1] society created by the Scottish writer Iain M.
Banks which features in a number of science fiction novels and works of short fiction by him, collectively called the Culture series. Overview[edit] Iain Banks diagnosed with gall bladder cancer. Iain Banks, whose darkly humorous presence has enlivened Scottish literature for 30 years, has announced he is "officially very poorly" with gall bladder cancer and may have only months to live.
Banks, 59, is recovering from jaundice caused by a blocked bile duct. "But that – it turns out – is the least of my problems," he said on his website. The author's trademark deadpan humour was to the fore as he broke the news: "I've withdrawn from all planned public engagements and I've asked my partner Adele if she will do me the honour of becoming my widow (sorry – but we find ghoulish humour helps)," he wrote. His website soon broke under pressure from wellwishers who wanted to read the news and leave tributes. Iain [M] Banks. Guardian book club: Iain M Banks on Use of Weapons. Banksophilia: Friends of Iain Banks.