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MarkJayBee — 'Consider Phlebas'
Published: 2010-03-17 20:13:34 +0000 UTC; Views: 10777; Favourites: 92; Downloads: 0
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Painted back in 2000, this illustration is based on a scene from the Iain M. Banks novel of the same title. This image was used to illustrate the sectionon Iain M. Banks's work in the book 'Literary Wonderlands'. See: mjb-graphics.co.uk/literary-wo…
Media: Airbrushed Acrylic, Gouache and Aquarel Pencil on Artboard – original size: 50x35cm
Lens flares added digitally to scanned original.
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Comments: 35
So cool. I love the idea of those "Ring Worlds." So alien from anything we know yet somehow we thought of it.
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Thanks, glad you like this one! 
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Fucking loved this book. among one of the most inspiring sci fi I've read.
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So glad you effing loved the book Alexander - I quite effing like it too! 
The word is that a mini-series has been proposed, and may go into production sometime this year.... 
Thanks for Watching!
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Very very vibrant colours here; I wonder if Homeworld was inspired by this....
That ship is ace - the illustration is sublime!
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Thanks very much - glad you like it! 
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It's okay - not exactly punctual myself
Like I say, love the ship
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Glad you like it, and thanks very much for the 'A+'!
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What's your favorite Culture novel!? Mine is split between "Matter" "Player of Games" and "Excession".
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I'd have to say 'Consider Phlebas', as I'm currently on my 5th re-read!! 
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Looks cool! I've actually been debating whether or not to read Iain M. Banks for a while. The one star reviews on Amazon were pretty harsh but if the book was good enough to inspire you to make something like this then there must be something that is really good about the series.
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Thanks for commenting SC!
Thanks also for the group invite, but if you check out my current 3D fractal work, you'll see that my type of art is
probably unsuitable for your group.
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Awesome....and ony 12 faves???? I love Ian Banks' scifi... just finishing The Algebraist at the moment.
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Cheers Krigl.
and didn't submit it to any groups - hence the lack of attention I guess.
The scale of 'The Algebraist' is mind-blowing isn't it?! Read it twice now,
and may even re-read it again soonish!
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Cheers Wayne, and thanks for faving too!
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anytime man!
I did a digital drawing on the idiran Xoxarle recently, I absolutely love this book so much.
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It is a truly inspiring read Wayne - hopefully someday
a movie will get made!
You may also like this piece: [link]
Very cool Idiran too btw!
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Thanks! I take that as a very great compliment!
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Thanks for 
Yeah, I'm a great fan of Iain M. Banks' stuff - think the scale he, and some others, work on has a definite influence on my work.
BTW thanks very much for voting 
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Just came across this again and felt a need to re-iterate how much I think this is fantastic lol.
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