Utopia, a poll (with other completely unconnected question)

[andrewducker]

"The Culture" in this case refers to the space-faring civilisation in Iain Banks' awesome series of novels.

[Poll #1792224]

Comments

[akirlu.livejournal.com]

Why, are they written under his confusingly similar pseudonym?

[autopope.livejournal.com]

Marketing.

He had a promising mainstream career as "Iain Banks". Then he handed in "Consider Phlebas". Orbit editorial/marketing said, "would you mind using a pseudonym?" To which, Iain said, "sure -- sell it as Iain M. Banks".

And that was that.

[akirlu.livejournal.com]

Er, thanks for the added detail, I do appreciate having the background on the reasons for the pseudonym, but that's not actually the question I asked. I think you may have missed a comma. I said, "Let's eat, Grandma!" NOT "Let's eat Grandma!"

Remember, people, punctuation saves lives.