Iain Banks was a Scottish author. He wrote mainstream fiction under the name Iain Banks and science fiction (including the popular [The Culture](https://openlibrary.org/subjects/series:imb_the_culture) series) as Iain M. Banks. In 2008, *The Times* named Banks in their list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945". *--Wikipedia*
Consider Phlebas is perhaps one of the lesser-known, but nevertheless the first, of the revelationary late Iain M. Banks' science fiction books. Consider Phlebas introduces us to the complex world of the mind-controlling, ubiquitous utopia of the Cul...
