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ā€œI mean, your societyā€™s broken, so who should we blame? Should we blame the rich, powerful people who caused it? No letā€™s blame the people with no power & no money & these immigrants who donā€™t even have the vote, yeah it must be their fucking fault.ā€

ā€”Iain Banks, the final interview

13/13

theguardian.com/books/2013/junā€¦

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Iain Banks: the final interview

Iain Banks died last Sunday, just before the publication of his final novel The Quarry. Last month he talked to Stuart Kelly about writing, politics and all the things still left to do . . .
Stuart Kelly (the Guardian)
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ā€œPay attention to the moments of contradiction & uncertainty threaded through character dialogue & self-reflectionā€¦Watch his tone. Watch his humour. For me, thatā€™s where the sharpest lessons areā€

ā€”Dr Bethany Jacobs for the New Scientist

12/13

newscientist.com/article/25061ā€¦

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Why sci-fi novelist Iain M. Banks was an ā€˜astoundingā€™ world-builder

The New Scientist Book Club is currently reading the late Iain M. Banksā€™s Culture novel The Player of Games. Fellow science fiction author Bethany Jacobs reveals how his work inspired her
Bethany Jacobs (New Scientist)
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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, Iainā€™s friend & fellow author Ken MacLeod discusses Iainā€™s schooldays, his literary influences, & his idea for a final Culture novel

11/13

youtube.com/watch?v=r7OW6A8XCgā€¦

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Ken MacLeod on the life and work of the late sc-fi legend Iain M. Banks

The New Scientist Book Club has been reading the late Iain M. Banksā€™s science fiction novel The Player of Games. Banksā€™s friend and fellow sci-fi author Ken ...
New Scientist (YouTube)

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

10/13

bloodknife.com/culture-war-iaiā€¦

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The Culture War: Iain M. Banks's Billionaire Fans - Blood Knife

The Culture novels are far-future communist space opera from an explicitly socialist author. So how do we explain their wealthy, hyper-capitalist fans?
Kurt Schiller (Blood Knife)
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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€

ā€”Simon Stephenson travels THE CROW ROAD for Reactor Magazine

9/13

reactormag.com/the-difference-ā€¦

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The Difference Is Entirely One of Setting: Iain Banksā€™ The Crow Road - Reactor

It was the day my grandmother exploded. That might just be the greatest opening line ever written, and I am allowed to say that because I did not write it. It is the opening salvo to Iain Banksā€™ 1992 novel The Crow Road. Few Tor.
Simon Stephenson (Reactor)
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ā€œBanksā€¦ 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€

ā€”Alan Jacobs on the Ambiguous Utopia of Iain M Banks, for The New Atlantis

8/13

thenewatlantis.com/publicationā€¦

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The Ambiguous Utopia of Iain M. Banks

Alan Jacobs on Iain M. Banks's "Culture" novels and the price of bliss.
Alan Jacobs (The New Atlantis)
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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. Banksā€™s #scifi Culture series

7/13

thebottleimp.org.uk/2023/11/beā€¦

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'Better to Create Your Own': On the Legacy and Utopianism of Iain M. Banksā€™s Culture Series - The Bottle Imp

The Culture ā€“ Iain M. Banksā€™s ā€˜personal utopiaā€™ or ā€˜secular heavenā€™, explored and expanded in ten sprawling, epic texts published between 1987 and 2012 ā€“ is one of the most radical creations in all of literature.
Pip Osmond-Williams (The Bottle Imp)
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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 ā€“ an interview with Iain M. Banks, on Strange Horizons

6/13

strangehorizons.com/non-fictioā€¦

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A Few Questions About the Culture: An Interview with Iain Banks

These interviews were conducted by email between April and June in 2010 as part of my PhD on the Culture, drawing on the extraordinary way Banks's writing investigates and interrogates language, thā€¦
Niall Harrison (Strange Horizons)
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ā€œTHE BRIDGE bends reality, breaks the rules of physics, invents technologies & plays around with impossible inventionsā€

ā€”Sam Jordison explores the link between Iain Banksā€™s ā€œmainstreamā€ & science-fiction novels

5/13

theguardian.com/books/2014/sepā€¦

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Iain Banksā€™s The Bridge: the link between his mainstream and SF work

Sam Jordison: The Bridge has been described as a ā€˜secret Culture novelā€™, a mystical key to Banksā€™s literary universe. It blurred the boundaries between genres ā€“ and revealed his sense of fun and games
Sam Jordison (the Guardian)
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Also on BBC Sounds: Inside THE WASP FACTORY

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

3/13

bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001w71d

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BBC Radio 4 - Inside The Wasp Factory

Simon Pegg explores Iain Banks's controversial novel, 40 years after publication.
BBC
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Iainā€™s debut novel THE WASP FACTORY was published 42 years ago todayā€¦

Available on BBC Sounds ā€“ Iain Banks discusses THE WASP FACTORY with James Naughtie & readers at the National Library of Scotland

šŸšØCONTAINS SPOILERSšŸšØ ā€“ read the book before listening!

2/13

bbc.co.uk/programmes/b016w0nf

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BBC Radio 4 - Bookclub, Iain Banks: The Wasp Factory

Iain Banks talks about his first novel The Wasp Factory.
BBC
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Iain M. Banks (1954ā€“2013) was born #OTD, 16 Feb: a šŸŽ‚ šŸ§µ
1/13

ā€œIain Banksā€¦ is a novelist who has his own ā€˜doubleā€™, 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€ ā€“ a 2010 article on Banksā€™s genre-busting career

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thebottleimp.org.uk/2010/11/reā€¦

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Reading Double, Writing Double: The Fiction of Iain (M.) Banks - The Bottle Imp

Iain Banksā€™ writing can be located within a context of contemporary British fiction, namely the period after 1970.
pookaadmin (The Bottle Imp)
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