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The Utopia Force
Iain Banks has described such a world in his science-fiction books about a future society called “The Culture”: enhanced humans live for thousands of years, ...
Mon, Dec 21 | from GOOD
Iain Banks, MPs and clergy urge government to rein in Royal Bank of Scotland
Iain Banks, the best-selling novelist, and a group of MPs, church leaders, academics and environmentalists have this weekend written to Alistair Darling to protest at the involvement of Royal Bank of Scotland in financing hostile overseas takeovers and for lending to "destructive f...
Sat, Nov 28 | from EducationGuardian.co.uk
BOOKS: Concern as Iain banks on M people but fails to make the transition - Tribune
BOOKS: Concern as Iain banks on M people but fails to make the transition Tribune (blog) while Iain Banks (without an M) writes mainstream fiction which gets turned into TV drama (The Crow Road) or attains cult status (The Wasp Factory). ...
Thu, Nov 12 | from tribunemagazine.co.uk
Transition by Iain Banks | Book review
Iain Banks has made a prolific career out of dividing himself in two, publishing novels such as his classic debut The Wasp Factory and The Crow Road as "Iain Banks" and adding a middle initial as "Iain M Banks" for a separate and very successful strand of hard science fiction. What, then, to m...
Fri, Sep 25 | from EducationGuardian.co.uk
Transition by Iain Banks
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Sat, Sep 12 | from EducationGuardian.co.uk
Podcast: Max Walker speaks to Iain Banks
Scottish author Iain Banks talks to Max Walker about the reception of The Wasp Factory, obsessive fans and writing novels that you can't read in the bath
Mon, Sep 7 | from EducationGuardian.co.uk
Iain Banks: Even at my age I still have something to prove
Readers of both Banks's mainstream work and his hardcore science fiction (published under the name Iain M Banks) agree that the quality of his science fiction has held up much better over the years; the "M" novels Look to Windward (2000) and Matter (2008) were among his most ambitious and...
Mon, Sep 7 | from EducationGuardian.co.uk
Stuart Jeffries on a golden age of British science-fiction writing
This is a golden age for British science fiction, chiefly thanks to a wave of writers who are tackling an area their American rivals tend to leave well alone - far-future set, space-operatic, hard sci-fi. Americans tend to set their sci-fi in soft (ie, scientifically unsupported) near fu...
Sun, Jul 12 | from EducationGuardian.co.uk
Sci-fi author Greg Bear to feed Halo fans hungry for details
It's safe to say that grand science fiction in the tradition of Iain Banks, Larry Niven and Greg Bear helped inspire many 'Halo' motifs in the first place, so in some ways we've come full circle. If you'll pardon a 'Halo' pun," O'Connor said. ...
Sun, Apr 19 | from blog.seattlepi.com
The State of the Art
I'm most excited that my adaptation of Iain Banks' 'The State of the Art' is going to be broadcast this week, at 2.15pm on Thursday 5th., on BBC Radio 4, as an Afternoon Play. It'll be available afterwards, internationally, on the BBC's IPlayer, and I'll post a link to that as soon as it's up. It...
Sun, Mar 1 | from Paul Cornell's House of Awkwardness
Opinion: My family values: Iain Banks Writer
I got grief from my uncles when The Wasp Factory was published. My middle name is Menzies but I took the "M" out of my name and was published as Iain Banks. I decided to put it back in for my science-fiction books. I found out years later that our original family name was Menzies. My paternal grandfa...
Fri, Feb 6 | from EducationGuardian.co.uk
The Incomplete List For 2009
I'm not sure where to start with this one. I think I'll begin with Ted Chiang, since he's the masterof the short story (or so I hear), but I have to figure out which books are the "classic" books by those authors; in most cases, I'll have only time to read one, so it has to be a good one. And I'm gonna b...
Fri, Jan 2 | from The Ferrett's Journal
The Wasp Factory | Nothing No More | CD Review
I first heard The Wasp Factory being played on XFM earlier this year and their name stuck in my head as it's taken from the title of one of my favourite novels (by Iain Banks), so it seemed as good a reason as any to check out their ...
Sun, Nov 16 | from Leeds Music Scene
Iain Banks, Captain Britain and Gordon Brown
‘The good news: no more six in the morning phone calls from Gordon ... The bad news: he's coming round in person.' It’s been quite a week. On Monday and Tuesday, I was in Manchester, recording my BBC Radio 4 adaptation of Iain M. Banks’ 'The State of the Art'. I’ve never been involved in radio drama bef...
Mon, Oct 13 | from Paul Cornell's House of Awkwardness
Guardian book club: John Mullan on Iain Banks' The Wasp Factory
Banks offered readers his "anti-body" theory of critical response. The Wasp Factory was not supposed to be shocking, yet was found so. His later novel Complicity, which was supposed to shock, caused no such ripples: the first novel had created antibodies to defeat the shock of the later on...
Mon, Jul 21 | from EducationGuardian.co.uk
The Wasp Factory: primitivism
· John Mullan is professor of English at University College London. Join him and Iain Banks for a discussion on Thursday July 10 at the Newsroom, 60 Farringdon Road, London EC1. Doors open at 6.30pm, talk at 7pm. Entry is £8 (includes a glass of wine). To reserve a ticket call 020 7886 9281 or email...
Fri, Jul 4 | from EducationGuardian.co.uk
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