Forum: Iain Banks

Hello all, Good to see there is now a forum on my favourite author. I've read all of his books (both SF and Fiction) - except Whit (failed to...

Here we go. First bookclub choice is The Bridge. Start reading/re-reading and let's convene on Monday 16th February to discuss. Some things to...

OK, we've all done the fave thing, but what about your least fave (note I say least fave, rather than worst) My top three would be; 1. Dead Air 2....

OK, I've commenced reading Banks' magnus-opus, The Crow Road, a novel that was successful enough to be properly adapted into a TV series many years...

As one of my favorite non"M"s aside from The Bridge, I gave a friend who's recently got back into reading, Whit. He's loving it. About half way...

Stumbled over the Wikipedia entry for Ursula K. Le Guin's The Lathe of Heaven, (A book I've not actually read, but... ) and I see that, in a story...

Can anyone recommend authors for "if you like Iain Banks" Someone asked me yesterday. As an SF I can recommend loads for if you like "M" Banks,...

...is provisionally entitled Transition. More details to follow, as they become available.

I knicked this one off the SFX forum I though it might be interesting to see if it ties up with the poll in this section of the froum From the...

Which novel did which character see this scene, and where? http://www.proflex.demon.co.uk/photos/home/IMBFridayQuiz.jpg

I re-read Canal Dreams a few weeks ago. After finishing it, I came across some comments that the author made about writing the book. I was...

My fave character is Stephen Grout from 'WoG', a wonderfully comic study of paranoia.

Seemingly there's a free IB book with the Scotland on Sunday this week and a big review of Transition.

I remember years ago the old Banks fanzine The Culture published a map of the island in The Wasp Factory that TMH had drawn. Did this ever find...

Ebay - You won this item on eBay: Transition - Iain Banks - ARC - Uncorrected Proof

You probably know the score - nominate a book, we all read the book, discuss the book. Something to keep us going whilst waiting for a new release?...

Iain M. Banks, one of the best writers of contemporary science fiction, has an evil twin:Iain Banks, without the M, crafts sadistic, often surreal,...