See, I found Banks via his SF side and read most of those Cultured works, and have only more recently started reading his "regular" fiction. I think all of his...
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Iain M. Banks said, Of Use Of Weapons: I originally wrote it chronologically, but then Ken MacLeod said 'Why don't you put the climax at the end of the ...
Call for comedy or murder/mystery themed short stories ( less then 6000 words but more the 2000 Words ). This call for writers is being put out by American...
There's a new culture book out... I know this because I was in Waterstones on Picadilly yesterday, so I now have a signed copy :) (copy was on the shelf...
Seems there's a website for IMB, well IB and IMB manitained by his publisher: http://www.iain-banks.net/ I've e-mailed the webguy suggesting he adds a link to...
Hello all, New member here: Monwar, 25, from Dhaka, Bangladesh. I work as an Organizational Development executive in a telecom firm here. Enjoyed Banks'...
Very Important Matter http://thomasfortenberry.net/?p=1923 I suppose you all know that Banks' next Culture book has arrived: Mattter. Cannot wait to read this....
Tim Have you finished it yet? I'm currently in the closing 100 odd pages (got it as a 40th birthday pressie in April - most surprised as I hadn't spotted it...
I have heard that Walking on Glass is about an old peoples home and have just read that The Bridge is about a man in a coma. Is there a definitive list of...
... being ... Well I could say that this part of your post is off-topic, but that'd be churlish... But then I might also say, "at last a post that isnt spam" ...
... belated reply... havent started it yet. In fact I've just finished The Algebraist, which I had been a little reluctant to start as I'd seen a mediocre...
Heh, almost a year since you replied. This is a very slow-time conversation... Yep, I enjoyed the Algebraist a lot too. Matter, the last book, was also a top...
I am going through the Algebraist right now. The story is great, but I can't seem to continue with it at a stretch. A bit too... umm... 'intangible' at some...
I intend to, except Dawn of War 2 and all those Warhammer 40k books are eating up my time like anything. Makes a perfect complement to Banks... Dan Abnett......