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2. Iain Banks - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia Banks, Iain M Short description Scottish sciencefiction novelist Date of birth 16 February 1954 (1954-02-16) (age 56) Place of birth Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iain_Banks

Iain Banks From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation search Iain Banks Born Iain Banks 16 February 1954 Dunfermline Fife , Scotland Pen name Iain M. Banks Occupation writer Nationality Scottish Period Genres science fiction literary fiction Influenced Ken MacLeod iainbanks.net Iain Banks (born on 16 February 1954 in Dunfermline Fife ) is a Scottish writer. He writes mainstream fiction under Iain Banks , and science fiction as Iain M. Banks , including the initial of his adopted middle name Menzies . In 2008, The Times named Banks in their list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945". Contents Early life and education Personal life Politics Names ... edit Early life and education Banks's father was an officer in the Admiralty and his mother was a professional ice skater . Banks studied English philosophy , and psychology at the University of Stirling edit Personal life After attending the University of Stirling, Banks moved to London and lived in the south of England until 1988 when he returned to Scotland, living in Edinburgh and then Fife Banks met his wife Annie in London, before the release of his first book. They married in Hawaii in 1992.

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4. Iain M. Bank Interview: Press And Journal - Personal Universes (May 29, 1999) Brief interview from the Press and Journal. http://www.andersandersen.com/Miscellaneous/StandAlone/imb.html

from Press and Journal Personal universes by Craig McGill THE first thing that strikes you about Iain Banks is how likeable he is. Anyone who has read his books will know the twisted, painful deaths awaiting many characters, particularly the heroes, whom you cheer on to the last page only for some twist to befall them. It's a fact that he shrugs off with his booming infectious laugh, which peppers conversations. "HAHAHAHAHA yeah, they have a pretty tough time of it, especially in the science-fiction novels, but there's the occasional sort of happy ending," he points out, proudly. "Normally, happy endings are really schmaltzy. Everybody else is doing that and if you watch a standard Hollywood movie you get that. There are far too many schmaltzy endings and it's been far too well covered already; I wouldn't want to do it." Iain Banks burst on to the literary scene in 1984 with The Wasp Factory, the tale of a boy who discovers that he is a woman. Since then, he has notched up a number of successes, including The Crow Road, The Bridge and Complicity, and he writes under the name Iain M. Banks for science-fiction titles, including Consider Phlebas, Excession, and Inversions, just out in paperback. At first dubbed the Scottish Bard of Depravity, a title he says he has passed on to Irvine Welsh, he now has an air of respectability about him, but still finds painful deaths for his characters. And he readily admits that he enjoys it.

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Home Book Reviews Features Interviews ... Spike Magazine Books, Music, Art, Ideas FREE - The Spike Magazine Book . 600 Pages Of Spike's Best Interviews, Features And Reviews. Download The PDF Now Iain Banks : Whit and Excession: Getting Used To Being God Chris Mitchell meets the relentlessly imaginative Iain.M Banks Twelve years and fourteen books since the publication of his debut novel The Wasp Factory, Iain Banks has become one of Britain's most prominent and prolific writers. Whether writing mainstream novels as plain "Iain Banks" or science fiction under his ubiquitous "Iain M. Banks" nom-de-plume, Banks has mastered the tricky art of attracting both bestseller status and critical acclaim. Now 42, Banks' most recent books, the sci-fi epic Excession and the religious cult thriller Whit, indicate that his ceaselessly inventive imagination is in no danger of slowing down. Banks is first and foremost a brilliant storyteller. He takes evident joy in being able to push his plotlines as far as they can go, sending the reader at breakneck speed through unexpected plot twists, cliffhanger endings and, in his sci-fi, mindbending technological possibilities. As he says, "You're very spoilt as a novelist. You get used to being God, basically. No-one tells you what to do." Yet amongst the sex, death, drink and illegal substances that peppers Banks' writing, there lurks a distinct moral probity.

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Authors A-Z Banks Iain M Business Iain M. Banks October 2001 Paperback Book Review Iain Banks is a multi-generic, multi-task dream. On one hand, he's produced a series of science fiction novels (Feersum Endjinn, Inversions) that have achieved cult status in his native Britain. On the other hand, he has dipped into the world of contemporary fiction with a number of equally successful works (The Bridge, Complicity). Fans of both rely on Banks's acidic wit, elegantly clever prose, and sometimes befuddling but always fascinating plot twists. The Business, a sly satire of corporate success, begins with every promise of fulfilling those standards. Kathryn Telman, "a senior executive officer, third level (counting from the top) in a commercial organization which has had many different names through the ages but which, these days, we usually just refer to as the Business," has been selected to negotiate the... Wasp Factory Iain M. Banks August 1998 Paperback Book Review "I had been making the rounds of the Sacrifice Poles the day we heard my brother had escaped. I already knew something was going to happen; the Factory told me." Those lines begin one of the most infamous of contemporary Scottish novels. The narrator, Frank Cauldhame, is a weird teenager who lives on a tiny island connected to mainland Scotland by a bridge. He maintains grisly Sacrifice Poles to serve as his early warning system and deterrent against anyone who might invade his territory.

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18. Iain M. Banks - Summary Bibliography Banks Makes Up Good Tunes, Interview with Iain M. Banks, Cultural Differences, The Facts of the Matter, Interview, Dial 'M' for Matter An Interview with Iain M Banks, Iain M http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?Iain_M._Banks

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THE CULTURE FAQ This FAQ anwsers questions about The Culture novels written by the Scottish author Iain M. Banks. It was originally written for questions posted to the alt.books.iain-banks newsgroup but now serves the wider web community. The FAQ was last updated on: 2008-07-25. The author of this FAQ can be contacted using this web email form, click here Contents of The Culture FAQ. What are The Culture novels? In published order The Culture novels are: What books by Iain Banks have been published? What is The Culture? ... Did Iain Banks also write these books? The Questions Linked Below This Warning Contain Major Spoilers The End of Look To Windward... Was 'it' part of The Culture? Can you explain what Inversions was about and exactly why it is considered a Culture novel. What is the timeline in Use Of Weapons? What is the last page of Excession all about? What are The Culture novels? The Scottish author Iain M. Banks has created a highly advanced space faring society called The Culture. In it phenomenally intelligent machines called 'Minds' run a civilization that many would consider as utopia or as close as you can get to it. Banks realized that a science fiction book set in utopia would be very dull and so he created 'Contact' the branch of The Culture that handles the dealing with, and meeting of, other civilizations. The plots of his Culture books all revolve around Contact and its espionage division called 'Special Circumstances'.

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