Torbjorn · @Torbjorn
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Loving the reference in

#IainBanks #GoodOmens2

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RanaldClouston · @RanaldClouston
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the last book by , about a group of friends visiting a man dying of cancer, in his condemned house about to be swallowed by the next door quarry. Not quite as grim as it sounds, even though Banks's cancer diagnosis came while he was finishing the book; it argues for the value of meeting terrible things with dark humour and even rage. It feels a bit like a stage play with its restricted setting, small cast, and focus on dialogue and monologue. @bookstodon

#bookstodon #IainBanks #finishedreading

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Manish Vij · @vij
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non-sci fi reference

#IainBanks

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Cory Doctorow's linkblog · @pluralistic
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Jane Fanghanel · @jkfanghanel
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@dschier @bookstodon

Try for . The series on are very good - first one . Banks also writes as which are also very good - was his first.

#thewaspfactory #IainBanks #considerphlebas #theculture #scifi #books #iainmbanks

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Thomas Beagle · @thomasbeagle
1809 followers · 3392 posts · Server mastodon.nz

@victorgijsbers That is also a great name for a Culture ship.

#IainBanks

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By-Tor · @by_tor
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Ahhh. Ten years since the death of one of my favourite authors. Writer of strange fiction and science fiction, I'm raising a toast of a wee dram of malt whisky to Iain (M) Banks.

Here is a nice wee introduction to his oeuvre in The Guardian.

theguardian.com/books/2023/jun

#books #literature #maltwhisky #whisky #scottishfiction #scifi #sciencefiction #iainmbanks #IainBanks

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LordWoolamaloo · @LordWoolamaloo
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This month marks a decade since we lost Iain Banks, far, far, far too damned early. Delighted to see the Guardian celebrating his work and selecting their faves from his "literary" and SF output theguardian.com/books/2023/jun

Still miss bumping into Iain, as lovely a bloke as you're ever likely to meet, and a bloody brilliant writer.

#IainBanks #livres #books

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Assoc for Scottish Literature · @scotlit
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Where to start with: Iain Banks

This month marks 10 years since the award-winning novelist Iain Banks died aged 59. The beloved writer, who wrote as & as began his writing career with the hit novel The Wasp Factory in 1984, & went on to write more than 30 books. Steven Poole picks out some good ways in to his world.

@bookstodon

theguardian.com/books/2023/jun

#iainmbanks #sciencefiction #IainBanks #literaryfiction #scottish

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NickBell · @MrBehemo
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I *just* learned that there was going to be a TV adaptation of series by Amazon and it was cancelled, which I learned by googling to see if anyone had ever talked about doing one.

And while I would *looooove* a good Culture TV show, I'm kind of glad it was cancelled, to be honest. 3 reasons 🧵

#IainBanks #culture #scifi

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LordWoolamaloo · @LordWoolamaloo
700 followers · 2256 posts · Server mastodon.scot

Nice blog by Chris Hallam, celebrating the work of Iain Banks, ten years on since we lost him far too bloody soon chrishallamworldview.wordpress

God but Iain would have loved our @cymerafestival if we still had him here. We'd probably have to have pulled him from he bar at closing time...

Also, how the hell is that ten years already???

(Via Down the Tubes) )

#scotland #IainBanks #livres #books

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Cory Doctorow's linkblog · @pluralistic
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Paul · @Vivthesetter
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My favourite author died on this day a while back. I still miss awaiting the publication of his latest book. The anticipation was keen.

Iain Banks. Remembered.

#author #IainBanks

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Vivienne Dunstan · @vivdunstan
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Vivienne Dunstan · @vivdunstan
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I finished reading Raw Spirit by last night, a tour around Scotland’s distilleries. After he wrote it a distillery was started in in the , my home town. They claim they’re the first distillery in the Borders since 1837. Maybe first legal distillery. My ancestor in 1857 Hawick had an illicit whisky still at . Which I view as rather enterprising of him! vivsancestry.wordpress.com/201

#ScottishHistory #genealogy #familyhistory #ancestry #scotland #wiltondean #ScottishBorders #hawick #whisky #IainBanks

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Vivienne Dunstan · @vivdunstan
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The drawback of reading Iain Banks’s “Raw Spirit” whisky tour book is I now have a very long list of whiskies I want to try! If we ever get back to the Balmoral Hotel in Edinburgh I will have to spend a long time - and a lot of money! - in their dedicated whisky bar. It is also marvellous reading more about whisky names I recognise from all the computers at St Andrews Computer Science back in the 1990s 🙂

#computerscience #standrewsuniversity #balmoralhotel #IainBanks #scotland #whisky #scotch

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Misinformation-Superhighwayman · @DamienWise
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Rich · @richText
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It was very Banks-y at the library today.

#IainBanks #russellbanks

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Rich · @richText
37 followers · 377 posts · Server twit.social

It was very Banks-y at the library today.

#IainBanks #russellbanks

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Vivienne Dunstan · @vivdunstan
750 followers · 800 posts · Server mastodon.scot

Just finished a couple of books, so starting on a new novel, Wheel of Time book 6. Here’s a visual with it and the other two main books I’m reading at the moment: Iain Banks on a whisky road trip around Scotland, and a collection of interviews with David Bowie.

#scotland #fantasy #novels #nonfiction #fiction #davidbowie #whisky #IainBanks #wheeloftime #reading #books

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