Forum: Iain Banks

Hi Guys , I'm about a third way in to ' Espedair Street ' and got thinking whether Iain would have based his fictitious band ' Frozen Gold ' upon...

Hello its me Jag from ages ago...anyway was watching the film Hot Fuzz last night and noticed that everytime Bill Bailey , who plays the desk...

Hello, everyone and anyone; so it's been over four years now. I imagine the likelihood is pretty high that anyone who happens to read this will...

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...

I've just finished 'The Business' and of course the main character is female. I can easily buy her as a woman but i'm male, as is Iain Banks. ...

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,...

Having been disappointed by the way Stonemouth turned out, I've been thinking: what was the last really great non-M that I've read? It's probably...

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....

I'm not going in depth, but I'm not going to white-out or otherwise hide spoilers, so if you haven't finished the book yet, this would be a good...

One I probably find a lot easier to tye about but which is your least favourite non M, I actually rather like song of stone and amm somewhat torn...

I've just finished reading The Business (working through the non-SF of Iain Banks). On page 384, when I read the sentence, "I used a search engine."...

http://www.barnesandnoble.com/blog/sci-fi-fantasy/my-favorite-sf-novels-kim-stanley-robinson/ Some other great books in the list & some I'm not...

Listed on Amazon: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Poems-Iain-Banks/dp/1408705877/ Little, Brown (5 Feb 2015) Hardcover 120 pages ISBN: 9781408705872

The Bridge is the book for The Guardian's bookgroup this month. See:...

Can anyone let me know which edition of The Times carried the infamous "rubbish" review of The Wasp Factory?

*POSSIBLE SPOILERS* I'm currently re-re-re-reading 'The Bridge', it's been a few years since I've last read it, so my terrible memory has had...

SPOILERS GALORE, you've been warned If you've been following the recent shenanigans over in the Chat area, you'll probably realize why I have...

I like the audiobooks of Iain M Banks' SF novels. I bought a few of them without media, as download, from Amazon. However this is very problematic as...

Kim Newman's "Anno Dracula" series are full of references and usually I get maybe 20-30%. However in "Johnny Alucard" in "Concert for Transylvania"...

No idea how long it's going to last, but the Kindle versions of Wasp Factory and Crow Road are currently at £0.99 and $1.59 on the respective Amazon...