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Iain Menzies Banks (officially Iain Banks, born on 16 February 1954 in Dunfermline, Fife) is a Scottish writer. As Iain M. Banks he writes science fiction; as Iain Banks he writes literary fiction. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (958x1044, 580 KB) en: Ian M. Banks at Worldcon 2005 in Glasgow, August 2005. ...
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Biography Banks's father was an officer in the Admiralty and his mother was once a professional ice skater. Banks studied English, philosophy and psychology at the University of Stirling. Flag of the Lord High Admiral The Admiralty was formerly the authority in the United Kingdom responsible for the command of the Royal Navy. ...
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His latest book is a mainstream novel called The Steep Approach to Garbadale. The Steep Approach to Garbadale is a forthcoming novel by the Scottish writer Iain Banks, to be published in 2007. ...
Personal life Banks met his wife Annie in London, before the release of his first book. They married in Hawaii in 1992.[1] However, he announced in early 2007 that, after 25 years together, they had split.[2] He currently lives in North Queensferry, a town on the north side of the Firth of Forth near the Forth Bridge and the Forth Road Bridge. North Queensferry is a town in Fife, Scotland, on the Firth of Forth, between the Forth Bridge and the Forth Road Bridge. ...
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In February 2007, Banks sold his extensive car collection. Since 2000, Banks spent more than £150,000 on cars, including a bottle green 3.2 litre Porsche Boxster, a burgundy Porsche 911 Turbo, a 3.8 litre Jaguar Mark II, a 5 litre black BMW 7 series and a daily use diesel Land Rover Defender whose power he had boosted by about 50%. Banks traded all of the vehicles for a Lexus RX 400h hybrid, and vowed in future to vote Green Party.[3] Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era. ...
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Politics As with his friend Ken MacLeod (another Scottish writer of technical and social science fiction) a strong awareness of left-wing history shows in his writings. The argument that an economy of abundance renders anarchy and adhocracy viable (or even inevitable) attracts many as an interesting potential experiment, were it ever to become testable. He was a signatory to the Declaration of Calton Hill, which calls for Scottish independence.[4] Ken MacLeod (born August 2, 1954), an award-winning Scottish science fiction writer, lives near Edinburgh. ...
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In late 2004 Banks was a prominent member of a group of British politicians and media figures who campaigned to have Prime Minister Tony Blair impeached following the 2003 invasion of Iraq. In protest he cut up his passport and posted it to 10 Downing Street. He relates his concerns about the invasion of Iraq in his book Raw Spirit, and the principal protagonist (Alban McGill) in the novel The Steep Approach to Garbadale confronts another character with arguments in a similar vein. For other people of the same name, see Tony Blair (disambiguation) Anthony Charles Lynton Blair (born May 6, 1953)[1] is the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, First Lord of the Treasury, Minister for the Civil Service, Leader of the Labour Party, and Member of Parliament for the constituency...
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Banks is an Honorary Associate of the National Secular Society (see Quotations) and a Distinguished Supporter of the Humanist Society of Scotland. The National Secular Society is an organisation of the United Kingdom which promotes secularism. ...
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Miscellany - Banks tends to produce a novel in around three months, working solidly, then take nine months off. In his leisure time, he has had flying lessons and records his own rock music.
- Banks tends to alternate writing between science fiction and literary fiction novels.
- Many of his science fiction books are based in the universe of 'The Culture' (a powerful, multi-species civilization living in our galaxy). The novella, The State of the Art records the Culture coming into contact with planet Earth (see Bibliography below).
- Following the release of his most recent science-fiction work, The Algebraist in 2004 (a non-Culture novel), Banks has stated that he intends to write more Culture novels. However, as he intends to slow the release of such books from one every 12 months to one every 18 months, the next Culture novel cannot be expected until sometime in 2008.
- Although Banks generally confines his writing to his own novels, he has written occasional reviews for The Guardian newspaper and is a semi-regular music reviewer for Marc Riley's Rocket Science radio show on BBC 6 Music. He was the subject of a South Bank Show television programme broadcast on 16 November 1997, subtitled The Strange Worlds of Iain Banks, which concentrated on his mainstream work. The Curse Of Iain Banks, a play written by Maxton Walker, was performed at the Edinburgh Fringe in 1999, with Banks contributing as a voice on tape. He has appeared on the BBC's political discussion television programme Question Time.
- While a student at Stirling University, Banks appeared as an extra in the final battle scene of the film Monty Python and the Holy Grail, which was filmed at the nearby Doune Castle.
- At the beginning of 2006 Banks captained a team of writers to victory in a special series of University Challenge: The Professionals on BBC2, beating a team of actors 185-105 (January 1, 2006), and then the 'news' team 190-45 in the final (January 2, 2006). He also won an edition of Celebrity Mastermind, taking "Malt whisky & the distilleries of Scotland" as his specialist subject on BBC1 on January 2, 2006.
- Interviewed on Mark Lawson's BBC Four series, first broadcast in the UK on 14 November 2006, Banks explained why his novels are published under two different names. His parents named him Iain Menzies Banks but his father made a mistake when registering the birth and he was officially registered as Iain Banks. Despite this he continued to use his unofficial middle name and it was as Iain M. Banks that he submitted The Wasp Factory for publication. However, his editor asked if he would mind dropping the 'M' as it appeared "too fussy". The editor was also concerned about possible confusion with Rosie M. Banks, a minor character in some of P.G. Wodehouse's Jeeves novels who is a romantic novelist. After his first three mainstream novels his publishers agreed to publish his first SF novel, Consider Phlebas. To distinguish between the mainstream and SF novels, Banks suggested the return of the 'M', although at one stage he considered John B. Macallan as his SF pseudonym, the name deriving from his favourite whiskies: Johnnie Walker Black Label and The Macallan single malt.
- In the film Hot Fuzz the police receptionist played by Bill Bailey is, when first introduced, reading Iain Banks' Complicity. In the second scene with the character played by Bill Bailey (where his hair style has suddenly changed to curly as opposed to the earlier straight), he is reading an Iain M. Banks novel. This is a sly set up for a later joke which reveals that the Bill Bailey character is in fact a set of identical twins (except for the hairstyle it seems).
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The State of the Art is a collection of short fiction, mainly science fiction, by Scottish writer Iain M. Banks, first published in 1991. ...
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Consider Phlebas is a science fiction novel by Scottish writer Iain M. Banks, first published in 1987. ...
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Bibliography
Novels as Iain Banks For the record label, see Wasp Factory Recordings The Wasp Factory was the first novel by Scottish writer Iain Banks. ...
Walking on Glass was the second published novel by the Scots author Iain Banks. ...
The Bridge is a novel by Scottish author Iain Banks. ...
Espedair Street is a rock and roll-based novel by Iain Banks. ...
Espedair Street was a four part BBC radio adaptation of the Iain Banks novel broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 1998. ...
The British Broadcasting Corporation,which is usually known as the BBC, is the largest broadcasting corporation in the world in terms of audience numbers, employing 26,000 staff in the United Kingdom alone and with a budget of more than GB£4 billion. ...
Canal Dreams is a novel by Scottish writer Iain Banks, published in 1989. ...
The Crow Road is a novel by the Scottish writer Iain Banks, published in 1992. ...
The Crow Road was a television miniseries by the BBC in 1996, based on the novel by Iain Banks. ...
Gavin Millar is a Scottish film director. ...
This article is about the novel by Scottish author Ian Banks. ...
Complicity (or Retribution in some markets) is a film based on the novel Complicity by Iain Banks. ...
Gavin Millar is a Scottish film director. ...
Whit, or, Isis amongst the unsaved is a novel by the Scottish writer Iain Banks, published in 1995. ...
Cover of an early edition of the book Spoiler warning: A Song of Stone is a novel by Scottish writer Iain Banks, published in 1997. ...
The Business is a 1999 novel by Iain Banks. ...
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The Steep Approach to Garbadale is a forthcoming novel by the Scottish writer Iain Banks, to be published in 2007. ...
Novels as Iain M. Banks Much of Banks's science fiction deals with a vast interstellar civilisation, the Culture, which he has developed in some detail over the course of six novels and a number of short stories. The Culture is a fictional anarchic, socialistic and utopian society created by the Scottish writer Iain Banks and described by him in several of his novels and shorter fictions. ...
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His other, non-Culture, science fiction novels are: Consider Phlebas is a science fiction novel by Scottish writer Iain M. Banks, first published in 1987. ...
Cover of an early edition of the book The Player of Games is a science fiction novel by Scottish writer Iain M. Banks, first published in 1988. ...
Use of Weapons is a science fiction novel by Iain M. Banks, and the third to deal with the Culture, his fictional technological utopia. ...
Excession is a science fiction novel by Iain M. Banks and the fourth published to feature The Culture. ...
Cover of an early edition of the book Inversions is a science fiction novel by Scottish writer Iain M. Banks, first published in 1998. ...
Look to Windward is a science fiction novel by Scottish writer Iain M. Banks, first published in 2000. ...
Matter is a forthcoming novel by the Scottish writer Iain Banks, to be published in 2007. ...
Against a Dark Background is a science fiction novel by Scottish writer Iain M. Banks, first published in 1993. ...
Feersum Endjinn is a science fiction novel by Iain M. Banks; unlike most of his science fiction, it does not feature the Culture. ...
The Algebraist, a science fiction novel by Scottish writer Iain M. Banks, first appeared in print in 2004. ...
Short fiction Banks writes less short fiction but has published one collection, as Iain M. Banks: It contains both science fiction and less categorizable works of fiction. The eponymous novella deals with the Culture, as do two other of the stories contained in this collection. The State of the Art is a collection of short fiction, mainly science fiction, by Scottish writer Iain M. Banks, first published in 1991. ...
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Non-fiction Raw Spirit: In Search of the Perfect Dram is a nonfiction book by Iain Banks first published in 2003. ...
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Introductions Banks has written a number of introductions for works by other writers including: Viriconium is a fictional city created by M. John Harrison and also the name of the cycle of novels and stories set in and around it. ...
Michael John Harrison (July 26, 1945, Warwickshire ), is a UK science fiction author, fantasy author and literary fiction author, who writes as M. John Harrison. // Biography and writing career Harrisons first story was published in 1966. ...
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Contributions Banks has contributed to a number of publications, including: - New Writing Scotland (1983) ISBN 0-9502629-4-3. A poem of Banks's called 041. The title comes from the old subscriber trunk dialling code for Glasgow.
- The Edinburgh Pub Guide (1989) edited by James Bethell, Polygon Press, ISBN 0-7486-6053-4. A review of The Green Tree.
- The Culture #4 (2001) contained the words from the photo story Forbidden Love that Banks wrote for Viz, but which they would not publish without a cut that he would not agree to. It was written (and photographed) at the 1989 Eastercon.
- Critical Wave #26 (1992). After the death of Isaac Asimov, the fanzine contained appreciations of him by many SF authors including Banks.
- New Scientist #1865, pp38-9 (1993) has an article by Banks called Escape from the Laws of Physics about the science (or lack of it) in science fiction. Banks has also had a number of letters published in the magazine, for example, one on creationism in November 2005 [5].
- The Observer. A review of the Tower Restaurant on the top floor at the Museum of Scotland.
- A Sense of Belonging to Scotland (2002), edited by Andy Hall, The Mercat Press, ISBN 1-84183-036-4. Banks contributed a few paragraphs to this book about the "favourite places of Scottish celebrities". His chosen place was the Forth Road Bridge.
- The Guardian, 02/11/2002. A review of the M. John Harrison novel Light headlined Into the 10th Dimension.
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Michael John Harrison (July 26, 1945, Warwickshire ), is a UK science fiction author, fantasy author and literary fiction author, who writes as M. John Harrison. // Biography and writing career Harrisons first story was published in 1966. ...
Light is a science fiction novel written by M. John Harrison and published in 2002. ...
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- "The Universe says simply, but with every possible complication, 'Existence' and it neither pressures us nor draws us out, except as we allow. It all boils down to nothing, and where we have the means and will to fix our reference within that flux, then there we are. Let me be part of that outrageous chaos... and I am." [2]
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References - ^ "Author Banks and wife of 25 years to split", Scotsman, February 19, 2007.
- ^ Liz Hoggard. "Iain Banks: The novel factory", Independent, February 18, 2007.
- ^ Mark Macaskill and Robert Booth. "Bye-bye Porsches, says green convert Iain Banks", Times, February 25, 2007.
- ^ http://www.scottishsocialistparty.info/archive/2004_10_03_newsarchive.html
- ^ New Scientist letter 19 November 2005
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