Iain joins Kevin Warwick and Steve Yearley in a panel entitled: Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger? From Science Fiction to Reality: The Human being In Transition, described thus: "In his guise as a science fiction writer, Iain M Banks has created a utopian interstellar civilisation known as the Culture. This imaginary community populated by ‘transhumans’ has real-life parallels in the work of Kevin Warwick, Professor of Cybernetics at Reading University. The subject of Warwick’s research is his own body, and he has transformed himself into the world’s first Cyborg. In this event Warwick and Banks are joined by Steve Yearley, Director of the ESRC Genomics Policy and Research Forum, to contemplate the future of human beings. Supported by ESRC Genomics Policy and Research Forum."

Tickets GBP 10.00 (8.00 concession). Booking opens 26 June. See http://www.edbookfest.co.uk/
Iain is also in a solo event on Monday 16 August.