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Stars back climate change demands

UK Singer KT Tunstall, Still Game star Ford Kiernan, author Iain Banks and comedian Frankie Boyle are all supporting Friends of the Earth Scotland's Big Ask Scotland campaign. It is demanding that the Scottish Government ensures that cuts in emissions are ...
Mon, May 25 | from Northumberland Gazette

The spirit of Star Trek

While that might be disputed, I do think science fiction, both the popular stuff like Star Trek and Star Wars, and the more literary works of Isaac Asimov, Frank Herbert, Iain Banks, and Robert Sawyer, can touch on some of the same aspects of life that ...
Thu, May 21 | from Examiner.com

Festival of visual art ... a Tracey Emin retrospective in ...

UK Wigtown is playing host to the whisky and books festival-within-a-festival, celebrating the connections between whisky and writing, with appearances from Iain Banks (who took time out from science fiction to pen Raw Spirit: In Search of the Perfect ...
Thu, May 7 | 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

Toby Litt - Journey into Space

UK There’sa good track record of literary writers dabbling in science fiction, from Doris Lessing and Margaret Atwood to Iain Banks, and we can add to that fine company this remarkable and moving offering from Toby Litt. Having long been an experimental ...
Wed, Mar 4 | from The List

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

Exclusive discounted rates to the Midland's best SF convention - NewCon 4

Northampton, October 11th and 12th 2008 Guests of Honour: Iain Banks Ken MacLeod Storm Constantine Plus Special Guest: Paul Cornell Don’t miss out! Don’t forget, BSFA members currently qualify for a double discount – both for being a member and for booking prior to Eastercon.
Fri, Nov 14 | from British Science Fiction Association

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

All Sorts of News

Back at my desk, lots of work at once, and many announcements to make, so here we go... I've arranged with the BBC and the organisers of Newcon in Northampton (11th-12th October) to premiere clips from my Afternoon Play adaptation of Iain Banks' 'The State of the Art' at the event. That'll be at 6....
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

Review: Matter by Iain M Banks

Iain Banks is back on home turf with his latest novel Matter, but Steven Poole wishes he'd got settled a bit quicker
Fri, Feb 8 | from EducationGuardian.co.uk

The Crow Road

is a miniseries made by BBC Scotland that is basedon a novel by Iain Banks. The back of the case states that this seriesis a mystery, and in a way it is. A more accurate description wouldbe that it's a character study of a Scottish family with some black comicmoments. While the program does have s...
Sat, Jun 30 | from DVD Talk