This is the new home for the content that was to be found on the 'excession' website - scenes and images from the books of Iain M Banks as I imagine them.

Realistically I think updates may continue to be be a very infrequent from now on but...

- 6th May: Link to try
I've had an email from Mark Salwowski - the artist who did many of the Iain M Banks covers. He requests a link to his site and I'm happy to oblige and further to recommend that it's definitely worth a look: http://www.salwowski.com The IMB covers and lots of others are up, some medium and some high resolution as well.

- 21st December: Found something else:
I've found the old Marain font I did ages ago - the spacing's not up to much and the mappings might be a bit weird (not all Marain characters map directly to English letters) but you can't have everything. Link to the file above and here.

- 23rd August: New Picture in 'images 2'
I finally got round to finishing something I've been working on for ages - lots of image manipulation finally got it into a form I was happy with

- 5th February: Look what I found:

This was taken from the Culture Fanzine a long time ago - I re-drew some sketches that were done by the fair Mr Banks himself to make this. It's stored in the 'archive' section.

Comments? Questions? Mail me...

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I've noticed that the old alt.books.iain-banks FAQ site may have gone down, so I've put a mirror of the last version I can find on my PC up here

Try the links to images 1 & 2 in the navigation bar.

ANNOUNCEMENTS AND NEWS
- New site launched June 2002
- New picture in images 2 (13/06/02)
- New picture in images 2 (09/02/03)
- New section - archives (02/06/03)
- New section alt.books.iain-banks (18/04/04)
- New picture completed (19/09/04)
- New picture uploaded (02/10/04)
- New section - 'in progress' (03/10/04)
- Old picture found (05/02/05)
- New picture in images 2 (23/08/05)
- Marain font (21/12/06)
- Link to try(06/05/07)

Copyright and Stuff:
I'm not interested in copyrighting the images in this site as they have all been taken directly from descriptions in the books of Iain M Banks. As far as I'm concerned he retains the copyright. For my part you may print and/or distribute them as you see fit as long as you identify this site as the source, provide a link if the use is for the web and that the use is non-commercial - unless you're Iain Banks please don't try to make money from anything on this site; I don't so why should you?

These images are provided as a resource for the entertainment of fans of the work of Iain M Banks and this resource should be used and not abused