> I don't really feel his books feature much sadism or horror Maybe the poster you're responding to was confusing the Culture stories with Banks' other non-fic

> I don't really feel his books feature much sadism or horror Maybe the poster you're responding to was confusing the Culture stories with Banks' other non-fiction. There's a lot of sadism and basically look-how-bad-humans-are-torture-porn in his other books: The Wasp Factory Canal Dreams A Song of Stone Complicity Transition