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“I mean, your society’s broken, so who should we blame? Should we blame the rich, powerful people who caused it? No let’s blame the people with no power & no money & these immigrants who don’t even have the vote, yeah it must be their fucking fault.”
—Iain Banks, the final interview
13/13
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/jun/15/iain-banks-the-final-interview
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“Pay attention to the moments of contradiction & uncertainty threaded through character dialogue & self-reflection…Watch his tone. Watch his humour. For me, that’s where the sharpest lessons are”
—Dr Bethany Jacobs for the New Scientist
12/13
#Scottish #literature #fiction #sciencefiction #IainBanks #IainMBanks #TheCulture
The New Scientist Book Club read the science-fiction masterpiece THE PLAYER OF GAMES by Iain M. Banks. In this video, Iain’s friend & fellow author Ken MacLeod discusses Iain’s schooldays, his literary influences, & his idea for a final Culture novel
11/13
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7OW6A8XCgg
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Why has Iain Banks’s Culture series – “a world where your Bezoses & your Musks are not just irrelevant, but actively sought out & disempowered” – garnered a billionaire fanbase? Kurt Schiller examines ultra-rich misreadings & delusions for Blood Knife
10/13
https://bloodknife.com/culture-war-iain-m-banks-jeff-bezos/
#Scottish #literature #fiction #sciencefiction #IainBanks #IainMBanks #TheCulture #billionaires
“Our strange wee country is as complex as any alien civilization, & getting it as right as Banks did in The Crow Road required every bit as much world-building skill as his Culture”
—Simon Stephenson travels THE CROW ROAD for Reactor Magazine
9/13
https://reactormag.com/the-difference-is-entirely-one-of-setting-iain-banks-the-crow-road/
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“Banks… envisions the overcoming of scarcity as the signal achievement of the civilization made by the Minds, & yet he focuses time and again on objects of unfulfilled desire”
—Alan Jacobs on the Ambiguous Utopia of Iain M Banks, for The New Atlantis
8/13
https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/the-ambiguous-utopia-of-iain-m-banks
#Scottish #literature #fiction #sciencefiction #IainBanks #IainMBanks #TheCulture #utopia
“As a humanist, atheist, and socialist, he preferred to place his trust in techno-scientific development, rather than his faith in gods, or his capital in the market”
Joseph S. Norman on the legacy & utopianism of Iain M. Banks’s #scifi Culture series
7/13
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HIPPY COMMIES WITH HYPER-WEAPONS
“I think space opera in general celebrates a certain manic wildness and vivacity of vision, a refusal to be constrained”
A Few Questions About the Culture – an interview with Iain M. Banks, on Strange Horizons
6/13
#Scottish #literature #fiction #sciencefiction #IainBanks #IainMBanks #TheCulture
“THE BRIDGE bends reality, breaks the rules of physics, invents technologies & plays around with impossible inventions”
—Sam Jordison explores the link between Iain Banks’s “mainstream” & science-fiction novels
5/13
#Scottish #literature #fiction #sciencefiction #IainBanks #IainMBanks #TheCulture
“I love plot, I love stories. I hate these novels that just stop… I don't think it’s good enough. I want closure. I don't want any of this existentialist post-modern shite, pal. I want a story, with an ending”
—an in-depth profile of Iain Banks, from 1999
4/13
https://www.theguardian.com/books/1999/aug/07/fiction.iainbanks
#Scottish #literature #fiction #sciencefiction #IainBanks #IainMBanks #TheCulture
Also on BBC Sounds: Inside THE WASP FACTORY
Iain Banks’s 1984 debut THE WASP FACTORY was described in the media as “a work of unparalleled depravity” & also “a masterpiece” – both reviews ended up on the cover. Simon Pegg discusses his favourite novel
3/13
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001w71d
#Scottish #literature #fiction #sciencefiction #IainBanks #IainMBanks #TheCulture
Iain’s debut novel THE WASP FACTORY was published 42 years ago today…
Available on BBC Sounds – Iain Banks discusses THE WASP FACTORY with James Naughtie & readers at the National Library of Scotland
🚨CONTAINS SPOILERS🚨 – read the book before listening!
2/13
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b016w0nf
#Scottish #literature #fiction #sciencefiction #IainBanks #IainMBanks #TheCulture
Iain M. Banks (1954–2013) was born #OTD, 16 Feb: a 🎂 🧵
1/13
“Iain Banks… is a novelist who has his own ‘double’, an author for whom the idea of a split writing persona is emphatically not out of place”
—“Reading Double, Writing Double: The Fiction of Iain (M) Banks” – a 2010 article on Banks’s genre-busting career
https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2010/11/reading-double-writing-double-the-fiction-of-iain-m-banks/
#Scottish #literature #fiction #sciencefiction #IainBanks #IainMBanks #TheCulture