In the Culture novels by Iain M. Banks, more highly advanced species often communicate subvocally through their technology.

I normally read pretty fast, but I have to slow down to read an Iain M. Banks.

Orbitals from the Culture series by Iain M. Banks.

Iain M. Banks' short story collection The State of the Art.

A novel of extraordinary imagination, richness and energy, Excession is Iain M. Banks at his magnificent best.

About the Author Iain M. Banks was born in Scotland in 1954.

It forms a background and plot device in several novels and shorter works of Iain M. Banks.

A later major figure in science fiction is Iain M. Banks who created a fictional anarchist, socialist, and utopian society the Culture.

The term liveware is found in the Culture novels by Iain M. Banks.