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  Iain Banks - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Iain Menzies Banks (born on February 16, 1954 in Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland) is a Scottish writer.
Banks is an Honorary Associate of the National Secular Society.
The Curse Of Iain Banks, a play written by Maxton Walker, was performed at the Edinburgh Fringe in 1999, with Iain contributing as a voice on tape.
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Iain M. Banks gets his mojo workin : The Algebraist is an extremely absorbing and enticing novel.
Iain M Banks expects you to work harder than most authors of this genre, but rewards you for it...
Spectacular banks novel : This would be a good introduction to Iain Banks, if you're new to his books.
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 Born Encyclopedia Novels By Iain Banks Resources   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
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Iain Banks Iain Menzies Banks (born on February 16, 1954 in Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland) writes mainstream novels as Iain Banks and science...
Banks (born on February 16, 1954 in Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland) writes mainstream novels as Iain...
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 Iain M. Banks   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Iain Menzies Banks (born on February 16, 1954 in Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland) writes mainstream novels as IainBanks and science fiction as Iain M. Banks.Banks studied English and Philosophy at the University ofStirling.
Banks tends to write a novel in around three months, working solidly, then take ninemonths off.
The Algebraist (ISBN 1-841-49155-1) is a non- Culture science fiction novel by Iain M. Banks, to be published in the UK by LittleBrown (an imprint of Time Warner) in October 2004.
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 Excessive Candour
In Britain, where Iain Banks has been extremely popular since the beginning of his career 16 years ago, Look to Windward will read as a kind of recessional to the world of the Culture, a recessional laced with joy.
The burden of meaning of The Waste Land is famously complex, and it may be that Banks means to test our knowledge of the last century of human life on the planet through his intricate use of the quote, from which he has extracted two book titles.
Very briefly, the Culture is a vast, galaxy-spanning compact between the Minds (hugely evolved Artificial Intelligences who govern the vast ships and vaster Orbitals that comprise the Culture's home territories) and the Involved (species sufficiently evolved to interact with one another; Homo sapiens, by the skin of its teeth, is one of these).
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 Iain M. Banks' "The Culture"
We live with, use, simply _get on_ with our freedom as much as the good people of Earth talk about it; and we talk about it as often as genuine examples of this shy concept can be found down there.
In his science fiction novels, British author Iain M. Banks projects a future human society that seems to embody all the essential virtues of Objectivist social theory, while at the same time suggesting how two widespread and major shortcomings of current Objectivist thought may be corrected.
Banks has presented a powerful, persuasive, optimistic and fun vision of what humans can accomplish.
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 Iain (M.) Banks FAQ   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Iain Banks is a Scottish writer, born in Dumfermline in 1954.
A CD of IMB's favourite songs released as part of the EMI Songbook Series.
The mailing list is high volume and generally off topic and the newsgroup is low volume and generally on topic.
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