Iain Banks

...or planning to give up our organic bodies and sublime into a mysterious form of conscious energy like the advanced species in Iain M Banks' Culture novels. We remain resolutely physical, and we remain reliant on old-fashioned analogue...

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Navigation - link to other main sections from here Iain Banks backs film version of sci-fi story A short story by Iain Banks about a transsexual alien is to be the first of his sciencefiction works to be adapted for the big screen. A...

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...death of a relative. The foundation is committed to "ending blanket prohibition in favour of better control through regulation". Iain Banks, the author and an advocate of drugs legalisation, has become a patron of the organisation,...

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There's a new sci-fi Movie on the horizon called The Culture and it's based on a short story by Iain M. Banks. It's among a large series of stories set in the same universe. ScreendailyA report thatA Dominic Murphy will direct, and...

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Iain Banks is well known for one crotchet that every reviewer of his work is obliged to mention: Under this name, the popular Scottish author writes edgy mainstream fiction, often psychological thrillers such as his unsettling first book,...

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...fun to write! Ah, Bisquitine. She had me even before she ate a bug. Shifting gears: this book is by Iain Banks in England and Iain M. Banks here in the U.S. The M being the initial you reserve for your SF titles. Why the difference? Is...

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...standstill over creative death. But then the latter would be able to call on a formidable second, Iain M Banks. Iain Banks writes fiction; Iain M Banks writes science-fiction where the gruesomeness can be even more inventive. No, he doesn't...

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Navigation - link to other main sections from here Iain Banks: the man who fell to earth His mother's deteriorating health and a steep cut in his latest advance have given the novelist a dose of harsh reality Anna Burnside Iain...

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...science fiction is this fantasy, or make-believe, for me," he reflects. So what of the "M" now? Having written both as Iain Banks and Iain M Banks since 1987, there have been rumblings that Banks has, with Transition, integrated this...

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James Walton finds Iain Banks' new novel, Transition, a little sinister Published: 3:43PM BST 03 Sep 2009 There aren't many writers who agree with their own critics - but in the past couple of years Iain Banks has been one of them. Faced...

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