61. Iain Banks - Wikipedia iain banks. (Redirected from iain M. banks). iain Menzies banks (bornon February 16, 1954 in Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland) is a writer http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iain_M._Banks

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64. La Science-fiction - Banks, Iain M., 1954- Excession / iain M.banks ; traduit de l'anglais par Jérôme Martin. Paris Laffont, 1998. http://www.sdm.qc.ca/txtdoc/sf/adu/BANKSIAINM.html

Banks, Iain M., 1954- Entrefer : roman / Iain Banks ; trad. de l'anglais par Bernard Sigaud. Paris : Denoël, 1988. 339 p. ; 18 cm. (Présence du futur ; 456) ISBN 2-207-30456-6. SDM: 8807415 [A 4] [Titre original: The bridge. Ed. originale, 1986.] Un homme dans le coma rêve qu'il refuse d'être hypnotisé par son psychiatre afin de retourner à son adolescence écossaise. Un complexe et intrigant récit qui déborde la formule science-fictive. [Yvon Allard] Entrefer / Iain Banks ; traduit de l'anglais par Bernard Sigaud. [Paris : Gallimard], 2000, c1988. 442 p. ; 18 cm. (Folio. Science-fiction ; 23) ISBN 2-07-041572-4. SDM: A101403 [A 4] [Titre original: The bridge. Ed. originale, 1986. Editeur sur la p. de t.: Denoël.] Un homme dans le coma rêve qu'il refuse d'être hypnotisé par son psychiatre afin de retourner à son adolescence écossaise. Un complexe et intrigant récit qui déborde la formule science-fictive. [Yvon Allard] Excession / Iain M. Banks ; traduit de l'anglais par Jérôme Martin. Paris : Laffont, 1998. 499 p. ; 22 cm. (Ailleurs et demain) ISBN 2-221-08572-8. SDM: 9810587 [A+ 4] [Titre original: Excession. Ed. originale, 1996.] Artefact apparu aux confins de la galaxie

65. Review: Ambiguous Reparations: Iain M. Banks' Look To Windward, Reviewed By John Ambiguous Reparations iain M. banks' Look to Windward. Reviewed by JohnAegard. 12/18/00 Look to Windward cover. Scotland's iain Menzies http://www.strangehorizons.com/2000/20001218/look_to_windward.shtml

Ambiguous Reparations: Iain M. Banks' Look to Windward Reviewed by John Aegard S cotland's Iain Menzies Banks is a prolific fellow with a literary double life. He's produced at least one book every year since The Wasp Factory came out in 1984, alternating between "mainstream" fiction (as just plain Iain Banks) and SF (as Iain M. Banks). His latest SF effort, Look To Windward takes us back to the Culture, the space opera utopia introduced over a decade ago in Consider Phlebas and expanded with three sequels since. The Culture is a cozy interstellar society in which everything is plentiful, no one is exploited, and very little is forbidden or even impossible. All of the details of its day-to-day operation are handled by benevolent hyperspace AIs called Minds, leaving its inhabitants free to pursue whatever pleasures they crave. The whimsical hedonism of the Culture is rather convincing quite like Banks has taken the Western world and divorced it even more completely from the indignities of physical want. And remarkably, he's refrained from knocking this obvious target from its sheltered doldrums. Through the eight hundred years covered so far in his novels, the Culture has remained mostly unchanged. This is Banks' primary point of divergence from modern space-opera virtuosos such as Dan Simmons, Vernor Vinge, or Peter Hamilton. The Culture does not exist merely so that it can be violently transformed in the course of a novel. Even Consider Phlebas' cataclysmic Idiran War was never posed as a Culture-changing event. The Minds of that novel had calculated the exact circumstances of their victory well in advance, and, despite billions of tragedies, the Culture as a whole sailed on unaffected.

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67. Albedo One Reviews - Iain (M) Banks iain (M) banks. Use of Weapons. Use of Weapons by iain M. banks. Orbit, Hardback,UK£12.95 reviewed by Underview Original appearance FTL 7, Winter 1990. http://homepage.tinet.ie/~albedo1/reviews-banks.html

Reviews Science Fiction - Fantasy - Horror outside links Iain (M) Banks Use of Weapons Use of Weapons by Iain M. Banks reviewed by Underview Original appearance: FTL 7, Winter 1990 Our hero, Cheradenine Zakalwe (not a Bill or a George in sight in this universe), is an agent of the Culture, a group of extra-high-tech aliens with a penchant for meddling, albeit altruistically, in the affairs of other societies. The Culture have featured in Bank's two previous offerings Consider Phlebas and The Player of Games, but this novel stands alone without reference to them. As Zakalwe is a soldier, the meddling we are treated to is all of a military nature. His employers appear to treat him in a rather cavalier fashion, placing him on the losing side as often as not, and allowing him to be horribly mutilated (on one occasion he is pulled out of a mission minus his body from the neck down) in the course of his work. In return they have given him something akin to eternal youth and, most importantly considering the state in which he returns from the majority of his assignments, the best of advanced medical care (especially the time when he had to quit while he was a head). This is a story failed with exotic weaponry of the ray-gun variety, huge interstellar spaceships and technology that is indistinguishable from magic. But at its code this always remains a novel about people, even though displaying all the trappings of hard SF. Over the course of the book, Zakalwe's past is revealed, interspersed non-chronologically through his latest mission. Slowly a picture of the man emerges, explaining his motives fully only at the very conclusion of the action.

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Home Genres Titles Authors ... Media May 06, 2003 Inversions by Iain Banks Publisher: Pocket Books Published: May 2001 (Paperback 384 pages) Published: Jan 2000 (Hardcover 352 pages) BookBrowse.com Links Read the reviews Write Your Own Review Excerpt Banks's Bio ... More by Banks Buy Books AddAll.com: Compare prices at 40+ stores Palm.com: Buy eBooks Audible.com: Buy Audiobooks Buy at Amazon.com From the Book Jacket: Iain M. Banks, the international bestselling author of The Player of Games and Consider Phlebas, is a true original, a literary visionary whose brilliant speculative fiction has transported us into worlds of unbounded imagination. Now, in his acclaimed new novel, Banks presents an engrossing portrait of an alien world, and of two very different people bound by a startling and mysterious secret. On a backward world with six moons, an alert spy reports on the doings of one Dr. Vosill, who has mysteriously become the personal physician to the king despite being a foreigner and, even more unthinkably, a woman. Vosill has more enemies than she first realizes. But then she also has more remedies in hand than those who wish her ill can ever guess. Elsewhere, in another palace across the mountains, a man named DeWar serves as chief bodyguard to the Protector General of Tassasen, a profession he describes as the business of "assassinating assassins." DeWar, too, has his enemies, but his foes strike more swiftly, and his means of combating them are more direct.

69. The Culture Novels Of Iain M. Banks -Consider Phlebas - The Player Of Games - Us Review Socialism Within, Anarchy Without. The Culture Novels of iain M. banks. 1.A few notes on the Culture, iain M.banks, www.phlebas.com/text/cultnote.html. http://flag.blackened.net/revolt/ws/2000/banks59.html

Review: Socialism Within, Anarchy Without The Culture Novels of Iain M. Banks Consider Phlebas The Player of Games Use of Weapons The State of the Art Excession Inversions IT HAD BEEN some time since I'd read any science fiction when my partner started buying the whole series chronologically. Once I read the first I was hooked. Banks has created a very attractive fictional society, the Culture. That it was instantly attractive and obviously anarchist is, perhaps, more interesting because the main character in Consider Phlebas, Horza, is antagonistic towards it. So, we see the first glimpse of this galactic anarchy through the eyes of one who has chosen to fight it. The Culture is a society that has solved all the immediate problems it faces in meeting its citizens' material needs. All work is automated, and artificial intelligences deal with those tasks that need reason to complete, such as running communications on the habitats in space. As a space-faring society, it exhibits many anarchist traits. People are free to leave it, and whole habitats or ships can disfederate at will. In Consider Phlebas, this happens. The Culture takes the momentous decision to go to war against the Idirans, an old-style imperialist set-up, and the Peace Faction splits off. There is no money because there is no need for it. People have advantages fixed into their genes, such as being able to regrow lost limbs and being able to switch off pain. Perhaps of more interest to some people is the ability to change sex at will, and possess drug glands that can be stimulated by thought.

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I AIN  M. B ANKS L'auteur Iain M. Banks (1954 - ) L'oeuvre Voici une bibliographie succincte de l'oeuvre de Iain M. Banks. Excession

71. Iain M. Banks : Excession Translate this page de iain M. banks. Le livre. iain M. banks, né en 1954, a pleinement réussi unedouble carrière d'écrivain de littérature générale et de Science-Fiction. http://sf.emse.fr/AUTHORS/IMBANKS/imbexc.html

Excession de Iain M. Banks Le livre Excession est paru aux éditions Robert Laffont , collection Ailleurs et Demain , en 1998. La quatrième de couverture Au plus profond de l'espace interstellaire, loin des volumes ordinairement fréquentés par la Culture, vient de surgir une Excession , un objet extraordinaire qui semble défier toutes les lois connues de la physique, déborder la raison, et provenir d'un univers supérieur, transcendant. La Culture, cette société galactique, décentralisée, hédoniste, altruiste, cynique, anarchiste, prodigieusement riche et efficace - composée d'humains et autres intelligences biologiques, mais aussi et peut-être surtout d'Intelligences Artificielles - ne peut ignorer ce défi. D'autant plus qu'une espèce cruelle et belliqueuse, les Affronteurs, que tout sépare de la Culture - mais que les valeurs de cette dernière lui interdisent de mettre brutalement au pas - tente de profiter de la situation. La section de la Culture, Circonstances Spéciales , redoutable et redoutée, va employer tous les coups tordus pour tenter de faire la lumière et redresser les torts. Elle met en ligne Genar-Hofoen, ambassadeur spécial auprès des Affronteurs, qui les apprécie plus qu'il ne devrait ; Ulver Seich, jeune beauté narcissique, pressée de faire ses armes dans les rangs de

72. Author Profile - Iain Banks Queensferry. He married in March 1992 . He produces fiction underthe name iain banks, and science fiction under iain M. banks. http://www.booklore.co.uk/Authors/BanksIain/BanksIain.htm

Banks, Iain lain Banks sprang to widespread and controversial public notice with the publication of his first novel, THE WASP FACTORY, 1984. Since then he has gained enormous and popular critical acclaim with further works of both fiction and science fiction, all of which are available in either Abacus or Orbit paperbacks. In 1993 he was acknowledged as one of the Best of Young Scottish Writers. In 1986 his number one bestseller, THE CROW ROAD, was adapted for television. THE TIMES has acclaimed lain Banks 'the most imaginative British novelist of his generation'. Iain Menzies Banks was born on February 16th, 1954 in Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland. Educated in North Queensferry and Gourock Primary Schools, Gourock and Greenock High Schools, and Stirling University (1972-1975); ordinary degree in English along with Philosophy and Psychology. During vacations he worked in Greenock area as hospital porter, estate worker, pier porter, road worker, dustman, and gardener. Hitch-hiked through Europe, Scandinavia and Morocco in 1975. Worked for a year as a testing technician for British Steel, spending some time at the Nigg Bay construction site. Visited USA in 1978; drove from Washington DC to Los Angeles and only went above 55mph once. Returned to Scotland; spent six months working for IBM in Greenock; only really showed any dedication or zeal when trying to make sure that vital computer components urgently required in Cape Town or Johannesburg went via interesting places like Reykjavik, Anchorage, Ulan Bator...

73. NOTBBC - Iain M Banks Fans iain M banks fans Was I the only Use of Weapons fan who found Colin Powell'sspeech today to be rather disturbing seeing as how it appears that Special http://www.frogger.uklinux.net/engine/forum/f,book/id,2718

Iain M Banks fans Posted by: Softie on 20:30 05/Feb/03 Was I the only "Use of Weapons" fan who found Colin Powell's speech today to be rather disturbing seeing as how it appears that Special Circumstances have dropped Zakalwe in to stir things up on behalf of Al Quaeda? Is he following orders or doing another Winter Palace job? The Minds are saying nothing. Re: Iain M Banks fans Posted by: chris r on 23:16 05/Feb/03 what what what? links please what what what/? Re: Iain M Banks fans Posted by: James on 05:51 06/Feb/03 Well, now you come to mention it... Special Circumstances == Office of Homeland Security? On 20:30 05/Feb/03, Softie wrote: > Was I the only "Use of Weapons" fan who found Colin Powell's speech today to be rather disturbing seeing as how it appears that Special Circumstances have dropped Zakalwe in to stir things up on behalf of Al Quaeda? Is he following orders or doing another Winter Palace job? The Minds are saying nothing. Re: Iain M Banks fans Posted by: Softie on 07:09 06/Feb/03 On 23:16 05/Feb/03, chris r wrote:

74. Inversions, De Iain M. Banks Translate this page de iain M. banks - RV ailleurs, Fleuve Noir. Pas besoin de le répéter,nous sommes à KaFkaïens des lecteurs intégristes de banks http://kafkaiens.org/cl/inversions.htm

Inversions de Iain M. Banks - RV ailleurs, Fleuve Noir des lecteurs intégristes de Banks (certains des membres de la rédaction se rasent la tête en psalmodiant son nom les soirs de pleine lune), aussi c'est toujours une certaine prise de risque que de critiquer un de ses bouquins, car on peut, à n'importe quel moment de l'une de nos légendaires réunions, voir un de nos charmants camarades se lever les yeux vides en brandissant son couteau et en disant d'une voix mécanique " argh, tu as insulté le maître et tu vas payer " (ne riez pas, ça m'est déjà arrivé : j'avais émis des doutes sur la qualité des certaines illustrations de l' Inversions EM ohoui@kafkaiens.org ahnon@kafkaiens.org

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76. Broen - Iain M. Banks BROEN. © 1984 iain M. banks. Dansk udgave forlaget KLIM, 1989 original titelThe Bridge ISBN 87 7724 067 7 1. udgave, Århus 1989. Synopsis Broen http://www.sciencefiction.dk/Bog100/broen.htm

BROEN © 1984 Iain M. Banks Dansk udgave- forlaget KLIM, 1989 original titel: The Bridge ISBN: 87 7724 067 7 1. udgave, Århus 1989 Synopsis: Broen: En mand vågner op med hukommelsestab i en verden, der blot består af en bro der fortsætter i det uendelige. I hans kamp for at finde sig selv og sin plads i verden, drager han afsted for at se hvor broen ender. Bogen er forholdsvis svær at læse da flere kapitler er skrevet på jysk, og første kapitel (3 sider) er MEGET bizart, men bliver man ved, er det en af de mest givende fortællinger skrevet. Jeg har læst den 3 gange og der er stadig nye ting der går op for mig. Robert Tofte Send en mail til webmaster@sciencefiction.dk med spørgsmål eller kommentarer til dette site.

77. Iain M. Banks Interview iain M. banks. Interviews. Interview (Jun 1997). Book Reviews. iain.M.banks'latest novel SF novel, Excession, was published in paperback in May. http://www.sffworld.com/authors/b/banks_iain/interviews/199706.html

Discussion forum Authors Interviews News ... Support sffworld.com , buy your books through these links Amazon.com Amazon.co.uk or Amazon.de read more Iain M. Banks Interviews Interview (Jun 1997) Book Reviews Against a Dark Background Excession Inversions Look To Windward Iain M. Banks Interview (Jun 1997) This Interview has been provided by Orbit , and is printed with their permission. Iain.M.Banks' latest novel SF novel, Excession , was published in paperback in May. His new non-SF novel, A Song of Stone , was published in hardback in August. In between publicity tours, he took time out to give us a unique insight into one man and his "M"... Your first novel, The Wasp Factory , was described by critics as both "the literary debut of the year" and "a work of unparalleled depravity". How did you feel about those reviews? At the time I was just delighted to have any reviews at all, so the fact that some of them slammed the book didn't matter. The very range of the reactions also kind of innoculated me against the effects reviews might have; as there was no consensus, and people disagreed so utterly whether the book deserved to win heaps of glittering prizes or be burned in bulk at a high temperature, it was hard to take the whole thing seriously. I suppose in the end it's best not to let either kind affect you; believe the glowing reviews and you might get big-headed and self-indulgent and think your work doesn't need editing; believe the bad ones and you might stop writing altogether.

78. Onward Elsewhere - Iain M. Banks Reviews iain M. banks More banks Reviews iain banks. Our Ranking Inversions is thelatest science fiction effort by iain banks (hence the M. in his name). http://onwardelsewhere.com/banksm.html

Iain M. Banks More Banks Reviews: Iain Banks Author Information Reviewed Books Other Books Website: iainbanks.net Consider Phlebas (C) Player of Games (C) State of the Art (C) (Short Story) Feersum Endjinn Against a Dark Background Excession (C) Inversions Look to Windward (C) Use of Weapons (C) Notes: (C) - Culture Series Consider Phlebas Added 1/8/00 Click here to buy Our Ranking This book may only be available in the UK. However you can usually find copies on eBay. Look to Windward Added 12/10/00 Click here to buy Our Ranking Look to Windward is the latest in a long line of incredible Culture novels by Iain Banks. After reading several other reviews of this, it has become obvious that this is either a love or hate book for Banks fans. I happened to absolutely love it, and wanted so much more when it was finished, but then again I've never been disappointed by a Banks sci-fi novel. Continuing what he seemed to have started with Excession Consider Phlebas first and then maybe moving to this one. Excession Added 12/17/00 Click here to buy Our Ranking Cover is from the UK version which is much cooler looking so much about them. The plot itself, was probably the most sweeping plot Banks has written to date. The sheer magnitude of it also didn't help the books cause. There was no small cause you could really cling to, or root for. Everything was at a massively large, almost cold level. Couple that with the lack of any characters that you could relate to, and after a while you feel like you are reading a history book instead of a novel. Now, don't get me wrong, the plot was still a very interesting one, but it was just way too big. Overall, Excession is my least favorite of all of the Culture books. While it is not a horrible novel (the writing after all is still Banks and therefore incredible) it is truly not his best effort. If you're a fan, and have read all of the other Culture ones, you might as well read this one. However, if you're looking to get introduced to Banks, or have only read one or two Culture books, read the others first.

79. Iain (M) Banks Links Culture Shock iain M banks. BBC Bookcase. Orbit Books iain M banks.BooksUnlimited Authors banks. Selected Titles Excession. Inversions. http://www.highlandschools-virtualib.org.uk/hsenglish/banks.htm

Profile : Born in North Queensferry, Fife in 1954 Moved to Gourock aged 9 Studied English, Philosophy and Psychology at Stirling University Had a number of jobs, including a technician for British Steel, and a clerk in a law firm Always intended to be an author First book : The wasp factory published in 1984 Uses the initial of his middle name, Menzies, for all his science fiction writing Considers The bridge (1986) to be his best novel Links : Culture Shock - Iain M Banks BBC Bookcase Orbit Books : Iain M Banks BooksUnlimited : Authors : Banks Selected Titles : Excession Inversions The Business The Crow Road ... © Highland Council Education, Culture and Sport Service Last updated 7/01/2002

80. Challenging Destiny Review of iain M. banks' Feersum Endjinn. Crystalline Sphere AuthorFeersum Endjinn, iain M. banks, Orbit, 1994, 279 pp. Feersum http://home.golden.net/~csp/reviews/feersumendjinn.htm

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