Iain M Banks
Iain banks s most popular book is the wasp factory.
Iain m banks. Banks consider phlebas the first novel in the author s acclaimed sci fi culture series. Banks including the initial of his adopted middle name menzies ˈmɪŋɪz listen. Banks and released from 1987 through 2012. Banks was a scottish author of fiction.
Iain banks died in june 2013. Iain banks 16 february 1954 9 june 2013 was a scottish author. Consider phlebas his first science fiction novel was published under the name iain m. Amazon has canceled its planned adaptation of iain m.
Iain banks came to widespread and controversial public notice with the publication of his first novel the wasp factory in 1984. The adaptation of the scottish author s sci fi books. Iain banks has 27 books on goodreads with 316196 ratings. Complicity became a film in 2000 and a t v.
Iain banks came to widespread and controversial public notice with the publication of his first novel the wasp factory in 1984. Amazon studios acquired rights to the book in 2018 as. He is now acclaimed as one of the most powerful innovative and exciting writers of his generation. Banks is a pseudonym of iain banks which he used to publish his science fiction.
He used this as his pen name for science fiction and goes by iain banks for some of his books. He gained enormous popular and critical acclaim for both his mainstream and his science fiction novels. The estate of iain banks has blamed timing for the demise of a planned amazon television adaptation of the late author s beloved culture series. The stories centre on the culture a utopian post scarcity space society of humanoids aliens and advanced artificial intelligences living in socialist habitats spread across the milky way galaxy.
He is now acclaimed as one of the most powerful innovative and exciting writers of his generation. The culture series is a science fiction series written by scottish author iain m. Iain banks was educated at the university of stirling where he studied english literature philosophy and psychology. Banks s father was an officer in the admiralty and his mother was once a professional ice skater.
Series called stonemouth came out based on his novel. Iain banks iain banks came to widespread and controversial public notice with the publication of his first novel the wasp factory in 1984.