1. Iain M. Banks - Wikipedia editar Como Iain M. Banks. En moitas das súas obras de ficción científica trata dunha gran organización pangaláctica chamada A Cultura, descrita con gran http://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iain_M._Banks

Iain M. Banks Na Galipedia, a wikipedia en galego. Ir a: navegaci³n procura Iain Menzies Banks 16 de febreiro de , Dunfermline, Fife, Escocia ) escribe novelas de literatura xeral ( mainstream ) como Iain Banks e de ficci³n cient­fica como Iain M. Banks O seu pai foi un oficial no almirantado, e a sºa nai foi nunha ocasi³n unha patinadora sobre xeo profesional. Estudou ingl©s e filosof­a na universidade de Stirling. Casou en 1992, e agora vive en North Queensferry ( Escocia ndice Pol­tica Miscel¡nea Bibliograf­a Como Iain Banks escribiu ... editar Pol­tica Do mesmo xeito que o seu amigo Ken MacLeod (outro escritor escoc©s de ficci³n cient­fica), mostra historias impregnadas de ideolox­a de esquerdas. ‰ co±ecido como un defensor da independiencia de Escocia, e fixo campa±a co partido socialista escoc©s. A finais de Banks foi membro destacado dun grupo brit¡nico, composto por pol­ticos e figuras medi¡ticas, que fixo unha campa±a para acusar ao primeiro ministro, Tony Blair , de prevaricaci³n trala invasi³n de Iraq en . En protesta por esta invasi³n, rompeu o seu pasaporte e enviouno ao

2. Iain M Banks isfdb.tamu.edu/cgibin/ea.cgi?Iain_M._Banks - m very aware that that being the case it could get terribly boring if all I do is drone on about what a totally wonderful place the Culture is. http://isfdb.tamu.edu/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?Iain_M._Banks

3. SS > SF > Book Reviews > Iain M. Banks Iain M. Banks (note the M Iain Banks may be the same person, but he s not the same author) writes about The Culture, a super-rich, super-advanced http://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/~susan/sf/books/b/banks.htm

home SF book reviews Novels/collections ... Other Iain M. Banks Google Alta Vista Iain M. Banks Novels/Collections Culture Consider Phlebas The Player of Games Use of Weapons The State of the Art Against a Dark Background Feersum Endjinn Excession Inversions Look to Windward The Algebraist Short works "Scratch". 1987. In The State of the Art "A Gift from the Culture". 1987. In The State of the Art "Odd Attachment". 1987. In The State of the Art "Cleaning Up". 1987. In The State of the Art "Road of Skulls". 1988. In The State of the Art "The State of the Art". 1989. In The State of the Art "Piece". 1989. In The State of the Art "Descendant". 1991. In The State of the Art Other information A Few Notes on the Culture Taking the Fantastic out of Fiction panel, 1998 SF elements: super-rich anarchistic culture, superior artificial intelligences, mega-large artificial environments Iain M. Banks (note the 'M' - Iain Banks may be the same person , but he's not the same author ) writes about The Culture , a super-rich, super-advanced anarchic galactic civilisation of the future. Nearly everything is legal, everyone is fabulously wealthy and powerful, but not many seem to be very happy. Novels/Collections : reviews Iain M. Banks.

4. Iain M. Banks - Celebrity Atheist List Iain M. Banks Ireland) I wanted to write about faith and the nature of belief, explains Iain Banks. Banks calls himself an evangelical atheist . http://www.celebatheists.com/index.php?title=Iain_M._Banks

5. Worlds Without End | Science Fiction & Fantasy Authors | Iain M. Banks Iain M. Banks. Full Name. Iain M. Banks. Pseudonym. Born. Died. Occupation. Nationality. Biography. No biography exists for this author. http://worldswithoutend.com/author.asp?ID=628

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7. Iain Banks - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia iain banks. iain M. banks at 63rd World Science Fiction Convention in Glasgow, As iain M. banks he writes science fiction; as iain banks he writes http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iain_Banks

Iain Banks From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation search Iain Banks Iain M. Banks at 63rd World Science Fiction Convention in Glasgow August 2005 Pseudonym Iain M. Banks Born 16 February Dunfermline Fife Scotland ... Occupation Writer Nationality British Writing period - present) Genres Science Fiction Literary Fiction Debut works The Wasp Factory (Iain Banks) Consider Phlebas (Iain M. Banks) Influenced Ken MacLeod Website Iain Banks (Official Website) Iain Menzies Banks (born on 16 February in Dunfermline Fife ) is a Scottish writer . As Iain M. Banks he writes science fiction ; as Iain Banks he writes literary fiction Contents Biography Personal life Politics Names ... edit 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 His latest book is a literary novel called The Steep Approach to Garbadale edit Personal life Iain Banks was educated at Stirling University where he studied English Literature, Philosophy and Psychology. He 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.

8. Iain M. Banks: A Few Notes On The Culture iain M banks. Html markup by Stefan Kruger. Firstly, and most importantly the Culture doesn t really exist. It s only a story. http://www.cs.bris.ac.uk/~stefan/culture.html

A Few Notes on the Culture by Iain M Banks [Html mark-up by Stefan Kruger] Firstly, and most importantly: the Culture doesn't really exist. It's only a story. It only exists in my mind and the minds of the people who've read about it. That having been made clear: The Culture is a group-civilisation formed from seven or eight humanoid species, space-living elements of which established a loose federation approximately nine thousand years ago. The ships and habitats which formed the original alliance required each others' support to pursue and maintain their independence from the political power structures - principally those of mature nation-states and autonomous commercial concerns - they had evolved from. The galaxy (our galaxy) in the Culture stories is a place long lived-in, and scattered with a variety of life-forms. In its vast and complicated history it has seen waves of empires, federations, colonisations, die-backs, wars, species-specific dark ages, renaissances, periods of mega-structure building and destruction, and whole ages of benign indifference and malign neglect. At the time of the Culture stories, there are perhaps a few dozen major space-faring civilisations, hundreds of minor ones, tens of thousands of species who might develop space-travel, and an uncountable number who have been there, done that, and have either gone into locatable but insular retreats to contemplate who-knows-what, or disappeared from the normal universe altogether to cultivate lives even less comprehensible.

9. Iain Banks A bibliography of iain banks s books, with the latest releases, covers, Visitors to this page also looked at these authors. iain M banks http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/b/iain-banks/

Fantastic Fiction Authors B Iain Banks Preferences google_ad_client = "pub-4149752303753296";google_alternate_ad_url = "http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/frames/banner.htm";google_ad_width = 468;google_ad_height = 60;google_ad_format = "468x60_as";google_ad_type = "text_image";google_ad_channel ="5061332721";google_color_border = "6699CC";google_color_bg = "003366";google_color_link = "FFFFFF";google_color_url = "AECCEB";google_color_text = "AECCEB"; Home Awards New Books Coming Soon ... Years Browse Authors A H O V ... U Iain Banks Scotland aka Iain M Banks Search Authors Search Books About Iain Banks Iain Banks came to widespread and controversial acclaim with the publication of his first novel, THE WASP FACTORY, in 1984. However, it was his 1987 novel CONSIDER PHLEBAS which introduced his remarkable talent to the SF community, and also saw the addition of the 'M' to his name - an addition which remains a distinguishing feature of his SF work. He has since written a further 5 SF novels, and a collection of SF short stories, THE STATE OF THE ART, all published by Orbit. Described by William Gibson as 'a phenomenon ... wildly successful, fearlessly creative', he was acknowledged as one of the Best of Young British Writers in 1993, and lives in Fife, Scotland. Novels The Wasp Factory Walking on Glass The Bridge Espedair Street ... The Steep Approach to Garbadale Non fiction Raw Spirit: In Search of the Perfect Dram Books about Iain Banks Three Novels of Iain Banks: Whit, The Crow Road and The Wasp Factory

10. Banks, Iain (M) | Links | Guardian Unlimited Books 1997 banks on writing A few notes on the Culture by iain M banks. Background Culture Shock intelligent and exhaustive unofficial iain M banks site http://books.guardian.co.uk/links/sites_on_writers/a-b/links/0,,97085,00.html

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11. Www.orbitbooks.net » Matter Extract We’re thrilled to post the prologue of iain M. banks’ Matter, the first Culture novel since Look to Windward (2000) Orbit will publish Matter in both the UK http://www.orbitbooks.net/matter-extract

www.orbitbooks.net Home About Orbit Contact Us ... Publishing Schedules Matter Extract We’re thrilled to post the prologue of Iain M. Banks’ Matter , the first Culture novel since Look to Windward (2000) Orbit will publish Matter in both the UK and the US this February. Enjoy! Prologue Turminder Xuss (drone, offensive) watched the woman Djan Seriy Anaplian for a few minutes, monitoring her slowing breathing and her gradually relaxing muscle-state until it knew she was genuinely asleep. It checked round its half-dozen previously deployed scout and secondary knife missiles, using their sensors to watch the still distant approaching army draw slowly closer and monitoring the various small patrols and individual scouts the army had sent out ahead of it. About half an hour later, when the front of the army was hazily visible on the desert highway a couple of kilometres to the west, a single mounted scout came riding along the top of the ridge, straight towards where the drone kept vigil and the woman slept. The man showed no sign of having seen through the camouflage field surrounding their little encampment, but unless he changed course he was going to ride right into them. The drone made a tutting noise very similar to the one the woman had made earlier and told its nearest knife missile to spook the mount. The pencil-thin shape came darting in, effectively invisible, and jabbed the beast in one flank so that it screamed and jerked, nearly unseating its rider as it veered away down the shallow slope of ridge towards the road.

12. Iain M. Banks' Culture References In Bungie's Halo Consider Phlebas by iain M. banks was first published in 1987. The following is a description of the Vavatch Orbital (a miniringworld) taken from the book http://marathon.bungie.org/story/halo_culture.html

Iain M. Banks' "Culture" references in Bungie's Halo Consider Phlebas (new UK cover) Illustrator Mark Salwowski. Consider Phlebas by Iain M. Banks was first published in 1987. The following is a description of the Vavatch Orbital (a mini-ringworld) taken from the book: "Vavatch lay in space like a god's bracelet. The fourteen-million kilometre hoop glittered and sparkled, blue and gold against the jet black gulf of space beyond. As the Clear Air Turbulence warped in towards the Orbital, most of the Company watched their goal approach on the main screen in the mess. The aquamarine sea, which covered most of the surface of the artefact's ultradense base material, was spattered with white puffs of cloud, collected in huge storm systems or vast banks, some of which seemed to stretch right across the full thirty-five-thousand-kilometre breadth of the slowly turning Orbital. Only on one side of that looped band of water was there any land visible, hard up against one sloped retaining wall of pure crystal. Although, from the distance they were watching, the sliver of land looked like a tiny brown thread lying on the edge of a great rolled-out bolt of vivid blue, that thread was anything up to two thousand kilometres across; there was no shortage of land on Vavatch." In a later section of the book there is the following line: "They were still flying over the Circlesea towards land when the Culture blew the whole Orbital into a fourteen-million-kilometre halo of light and dust..."

13. Iain M. Banks The Algebraist Reviewed By Rick Kleffel The authors who first really caught my eye Alastair Reynolds and Peter F. Hamilton with their great cranking space operas both mentioned iain M. banks http://trashotron.com/agony/reviews/2004/banks-the_algebraist.htm

Agony Column Home Agony Column Review Archive The Agebraist Iain M. Banks Orbit / Time Warner Book Group UK UK First Edition Hardcover ISBN 1-841-49155-1 Publication Date: 09-28-2004 Date Reviewed: 10-18-04 REFERENCES COLUMNS Science Fiction I suppose that everyone has gaps in their reading, authors they'd love to have read but have not yet got round to. I grew tired of science fiction in the 1980's and didn't really return to the genre with any enthusiasm until the late 1990's. The authors who first really caught my eye Alastair Reynolds and Peter F. Hamilton with their great cranking space operas both mentioned Iain M. Banks as a primal influence. But by that time, Banks' Culture series was well under way. Though I bought the first couple of entries, both as trade paperbacks and even, more recently, in a first edition hardcover, I never got round to actually reading the work of the writer who cast such a large shadow on my new favorites. Thanks then to Iain M. Banks himself, who neatly solves the problem for me and others like me with his most recent novel, 'The Algebraist'. Finally I get to see what all the fuss is about. In a word (or two): great writing. Banks brings a huge imagination, vivid scenarios, head-spinning speculations, fascinating scientific information, in other words all the expected bits. But it's the unexpected that we really expect in a novel like this. That frisson of surprise, the shock of the new. What could be shocking in space opera, the genre that has everything in the universe? Sex? Nah, zero-g and inter-species, it's been done and overdone. Violence? Heck, George Lucas blew up planets nearly thirty years ago. It was a yawner then, it's more so now.

14. Ex Libris Archives: Iain M. Banks banks leads something of a double life. Under the name iain M. banks he writes the best science fiction I ve read in the last few years, while under the http://www.wjduquette.com/authors/imbanks.html

Home Ex Libris Authors : Iain M. Banks Iain M. Banks A little culture Have you seen our weblog or our monthly book review? Banks leads something of a double life. Under the name Iain M. Banks he writes the best science fiction I've read in the last few years, while under the name Iain Banks he writes more general fiction. I hesitate to call his general work mainstream, as it's generally filled with the bizarre and perverse. I've read several of his "Iain Banks", not all of which have been to my taste. However, I've enjoyed the work of Iain M. Banks considerably. Most of Banks' science fiction takes place in the context of the Culture, an ancient space-faring civilization based on equality, non-violence, abundant robotic labor, super-intelligent artificial minds, and a desire to have as much fun as possible. The Culture must sometimes deal with other civilizations, however, and this task is given to the Culture's Contact group (Normal members of the Culture find Contact rather distasteful). And then, for those special, more dangerous contacts, there is Contact's Special Circumstances section.... The Culture novels include Excession The Player of Games Consider Phlebas Use of Weapons , and The State of the Art The Player of Games is a good starting point, as is

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16. Iain Banks On LibraryThing | Catalog Your Books Online iain Menzies banks (b. 1954), Scottish writer who publishes mainstream fiction as iain banks and science fiction as iain M. banks http://www.librarything.com/author/banksiain

Language: English [ others Albanian Basque Bulgarian ... Welsh Over twenty-two million books on members' bookshelves. Home Book Suggestions Zeitgeist Groups ... Blog By Szymon Sok³Å‚ 1 picture add a picture Author: Iain Banks Also known as: Iain M. Banks Iain Menzies Banks Iain Banks Iain M. Banks ... Iain M.Banks Members Reviews Rating Favorited Conversations Disambiguation Notice Iain Menzies Banks (b. 1954) , Scottish writer who publishes mainstream fiction as Iain Banks and science fiction as Iain M. Banks Books by Iain Banks combine/separate works The wasp factory : a novel 1531 copies, 31 reviews Consider Phlebas 1312 copies, 13 reviews The Algebraist 1215 copies, 32 reviews The player of games 1200 copies, 25 reviews Excession 1183 copies, 20 reviews Use of weapons 1120 copies, 10 reviews Look to windward 1078 copies, 11 reviews Inversions 840 copies, 8 reviews Feersum endjinn 828 copies, 11 reviews The crow road 827 copies, 7 reviews Complicity 762 copies, 3 reviews Against a dark background 751 copies, 10 reviews The state of the art 735 copies, 8 reviews The bridge 722 copies, 3 reviews

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18. The Banksoniain It started as a quarterly publication covering all things to do with the iain banks (who also publishes as iain M. banks), but is now published every six http://www.banksoniain.netfirms.com/

Web Hosting by Netfirms Free Domain Names by Netfirms The Banksoniain An Iain (M.) Banks Fanzine Welcome to the distribution site for the Iain (M.) Banks fanzine - The Banksoniain. It started as a quarterly publication covering all things to do with the Iain Banks (who also publishes as Iain M. Banks), but is now published every six months, so look for the next issue in February 2008 to coincide with the release of Matter. All issues are available as in PDF format from the links below. The Banksoniain keeps a diary of Iain (M) Banks related events : TV and Radio appearances, Book Festivals, Conventions, Book publication dates, and more. Banksoniain Issue 12 (210Kb) released 2nd August 2007 Looking forward to the next Banks book, Matter , as well as the reaction to the last one, The Steep Approach to Garbadale The Book Biography is Complicity this issue, so we have the film to consider as well. The unpublished works of Iain Banks are the subject of the Banks Obscura An extra special article goes into the studio with Gary Lloyd and looks at the Espedair Street tribute album project he is working on with Iain.

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20. Nanoscience And Nanosociety: Iain M. Banks' The Algebraist iain M. banks The Algebraist. iain banks drinks from the same spring of maniacal invention as Neal Stephenson, and swims in the same kind of infinite http://centernanosociety.blogspot.com/2007/12/iain-m-banks-algebraist.html

@import url("http://www.blogger.com/css/blog_controls.css"); @import url("http://www.blogger.com/dyn-css/authorization.css?targetBlogID=36954124"); var BL_backlinkURL = "http://www.blogger.com/dyn-js/backlink_count.js";var BL_blogId = "36954124"; Nanoscience and Nanosociety Unofficial Blog of CNS-UCSB: Linking Nanoscience, Society, and Culture Friday, December 28, 2007 Iain M. Banks' The Algebraist Iain Banks drinks from the same spring of maniacal invention as Neal Stephenson, and swims in the same kind of infinite fountain of words. But he relegates nano to almost nothing in this major SF novel from 2005. Nano plays the role of some crappy surveillance dust that is found out in time for Fassin our lead to save himself. Let's just say that nano is NOT a "general-purpose technology." The Algebraist's system is extremely advanced, but the extremely small has a walk-on as a variable component in an agent of control. There are all sorts of great things about this book, which sometime you absolutely must read! Among others, there are elements of a theory of technology: 1. the most powerful is the most embedded. The species that has the highest-tech has also integrated it so completely into its cultural systems that it is most of the time literally invisible.

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