Comic Books
- In the final issue of the Grendel miniseries Devil's Odyssey, the Consortium are a blatant Captain Ersatz of The Culture —- an AI-ruled Utopia with super-powered science and a tendency to whimsical starship names.
- Midway through Hellstorm: Prince of Lies, after British writer Warren Ellis launched a new arc, a satanic nightclub in Los Angeles was abruptly renamed "The Wasp Factory".
Film — Live Action
- In Hot Fuzz there is a pair of identical twins, one of whom only reads Iain Banks novels and one of whom only reads Iain M. Banks novels.
Literature
- The Doctor Who Expanded Universe has a recurring highly-advanced civilization called The People, introduced in The Also People, who are heavily inspired by The Culture.
- Kim Newman:
- The villain of the Diogenes Club story "You Don't Have to Be Mad..." is named after Iain M. Banks.
- Iain M. Banks himself (or an alternate-timeline version of him) has a brief cameo in one of the Dark Future novels.
Live-Action TV
- One of the bookshop scenes in season two of Good Omens (2019) has a character reading the first page of The Crow Road, with a focus on its opening line, "It was the day my grandmother exploded". The Angel Muriel is seen reading the book later in the series.
Music
- Canadian musician Grimes named her song "Player of Games'' after Banks' novel.
- Questionable Content: The page note points out the reference to the Ian M. Banks on "A Rose By Any Other Name"
Yay:We certainly hope you're not laughing at our name. We come from a long line of Newfriends. Our father, Hooray Newfriend. Our grandfather Huzzah Newfriend. Our great-grandfather, Hallelujah—
Roko: Yes yes a very distinguished lineage - Jeph's other project, Alice Grove, is explicitly dedicated to Banks's memory.
