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ā€œI 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.ā€

—Iain Banks, the final interview

13/13

theguardian.com/books/2013/jun…

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ā€œPay 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 areā€

—Dr Bethany Jacobs for the New Scientist

12/13

newscientist.com/article/25061…

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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

youtube.com/watch?v=r7OW6A8XCg…

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Why has Iain Banks’s Culture series – ā€œa world where your Bezoses & your Musks are not just irrelevant, but actively sought out & disempoweredā€ – garnered a billionaire fanbase? Kurt Schiller examines ultra-rich misreadings & delusions for Blood Knife

10/13

bloodknife.com/culture-war-iai…

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ā€œOur 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 Cultureā€

—Simon Stephenson travels THE CROW ROAD for Reactor Magazine

9/13

reactormag.com/the-difference-…

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ā€œBanks… 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 desireā€

—Alan Jacobs on the Ambiguous Utopia of Iain M Banks, for The New Atlantis

8/13

thenewatlantis.com/publication…

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ā€œAs 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 marketā€

Joseph S. Norman on the legacy & utopianism of Iain M. Banks’s #scifi Culture series

7/13

thebottleimp.org.uk/2023/11/be…

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HIPPY COMMIES WITH HYPER-WEAPONS

ā€œI think space opera in general celebrates a certain manic wildness and vivacity of vision, a refusal to be constrainedā€

A Few Questions About the Culture – an interview with Iain M. Banks, on Strange Horizons

6/13

strangehorizons.com/non-fictio…

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ā€œTHE BRIDGE bends reality, breaks the rules of physics, invents technologies & plays around with impossible inventionsā€

—Sam Jordison explores the link between Iain Banks’s ā€œmainstreamā€ & science-fiction novels

5/13

theguardian.com/books/2014/sep…

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Also on BBC Sounds: Inside THE WASP FACTORY

Iain Banks’s 1984 debut THE WASP FACTORY was described in the media as ā€œa work of unparalleled depravityā€ & also ā€œa masterpieceā€ – both reviews ended up on the cover. Simon Pegg discusses his favourite novel

3/13

bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001w71d

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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

bbc.co.uk/programmes/b016w0nf

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Iain M. Banks (1954–2013) was born #OTD, 16 Feb: a šŸŽ‚ 🧵
1/13

ā€œIain Banks… is a novelist who has his own ā€˜double’, an author for whom the idea of a split writing persona is emphatically not out of placeā€

ā€”ā€œReading Double, Writing Double: The Fiction of Iain (M) Banksā€ – a 2010 article on Banks’s genre-busting career

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thebottleimp.org.uk/2010/11/re…

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