The Culture: The Drawings Dune Compiled by and with a

Compiled by and with a foreward and afterword by award-winning writer and editor Stephen Jones

a couple encounters a “weeping woman”—a professional mourner—sobbing inconsolably at a funeral

and critical analysis of humankind is astounding

as he's a nice kid)

aspiring yuppie romance was already on the ropes when they meet Lulu

The Culture: The Drawings Dune Compiled by and with a***WINNER OF THE LOCUS AWARD FOR BEST ILLUSTRATED AND ART BOOK*** This extraordinary collection celebrates the dazzling worldbuilding of Iain M. Banks, one of the most important and influential writers in modern science fiction. Faithfully reproduced from notebooks he kept in the 1970s and 80s, these annotated original illustrations depict the ships, habitats, geography, weapons and language of Banks' Culture series of novels in incredible detail.