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Iain Banks

Born

in Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland

February 16, 1954

Died

June 09, 2013

Website

http://www.iain-banks.net/

Genre

Literature & Fiction

Influences

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This author also published science fiction under the pseudonym Iain M. Banks.

Banks's father was an officer in the Admiralty and his mother was once a professional ice skater. Iain Banks was educated at the University of Stirling 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 1982. However, he announced in early 2007 that, after 25 years together, they had separated. He lived most recently in North Queensferry, a town on the north side of the Firth of Forth near the Forth Bridge and the Forth Road Bri ...more

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Iain Banks's Blog

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25th Anniversary Edition of The Crow Road

25 years ago, THE CROW ROAD first found its way into readers' hands.

From its bravura opening onwards, THE CROW ROAD is justly regarded as an outstanding contemporary novel.

'It was the day my grandmother exploded. I sat in the crematorium, listening to my Uncle Hamish quietly snoring in harmony to Bach's Mass in B Minor, and I reflected that it always seemed to be death that drew me

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Iain Banks’s books

Average rating: 3.78 · 230,092 ratings · 13,879 reviews · 39 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Wasp Factory 3.75 avg rating — 109,008 ratings — published 1984 — 120 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Crow Road 4.09 avg rating — 24,319 ratings — published 1992 — 53 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Complicity 3.92 avg rating — 13,793 ratings — published 1993 — 49 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Bridge 3.87 avg rating — 12,731 ratings — published 1986 — 49 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Espedair Street 3.90 avg rating — 8,310 ratings — published 1987 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Whit 3.86 avg rating — 8,111 ratings — published 1995 — 23 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Stonemouth 3.79 avg rating — 7,345 ratings — published 2012 — 46 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Business 3.52 avg rating — 7,328 ratings — published 1999 — 47 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Walking on Glass 3.72 avg rating — 6,932 ratings — published 1985 — 46 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dead Air 3.55 avg rating — 6,488 ratings — published 2002 — 24 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Quotes by Iain Banks (?)

“You need to read more science fiction. Nobody who reads science fiction comes out with this crap about the end of history”
― Iain Banks

tags: history, reading, sci-fi

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“Fuck every cause that ends in murder and children crying.”
― Iain M. Banks, Against a Dark Background

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“Empathize with stupidity and you're halfway to thinking like an idiot”
― Iain M. Banks

tags: consider-phlebas

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Polls

March Science Fiction -- The following poll decides which two selections will go on to the final round for Science Fiction BOTM of March 2017.

Doomsday Book by Connie Willis

18 votes, 25.4%

The Reality Dysfunction by Peter F. Hamilton

16 votes, 22.5%

The Quiet Invasion by Sarah Zettel

15 votes, 21.1%

Revenger by Alastair Reynolds

7 votes, 9.9%

The Business by Iain Banks (

4 votes, 5.6%

The January Dancer by Michael Flynn

3 votes, 4.2%

Control Point by Myke Cole

3 votes, 4.2%

Time and Again by Jack Finney

3 votes, 4.2%

New Pompeii by Daniel Godfrey

2 votes, 2.8%

71 total votes

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Iain Banks's Blog

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