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The Banksoniain #10 an Iain (M.) Banks Fanzine August 2006 The Banksoniain #10 An Iain (M.) Banks Fanzine August 2006 Editorial Banks’s Next Books Apologies for the lateness of this issue, The next Banks book has been put back to unfortunately real life got in the way of March 2007. It also seems to have undergone writing and it basically missed its slot in my a name change and is now called The Steep quarterly schedule. If you want issues to Approach to Garbadale, rather than Matter come out on a more regular basis then please (which could have been a dull Physics contribute articles, or even just ideas for textbook). It also seems to have had another articles, or anything really. Contact details at working title, Empire (a History textbook?) the end of the last page. Please expect publication to be biannual from now on so The book after next, an Iain M. Banks effort look for issue #11 in February 2007. that is definitely Culture - the opening section of this book having been written before Steep The issue features The Crow Road, the book, Approach was started - has also been put back the TV series, the radio reading and the audio as a consequence of its predecessor‟s delay. book, and to help you make all the Iain is taking the summer off, and probably connections we have produced a family tree the winter as well, and plans to start work on of the major characters. This is probably my the Untitled Culture Novel in 2007 with favourite Banks book, and I found it difficult publication currently scheduled for August to write about possibly for that reason, but 2008. maybe as Prentice is a close contemporary of mine, and despite growing up in Essex and More details of the audio CD of the new book not on the west coast of Scotland, I identify have emerged with it listed as being 368 more with him than any other Banks minutes long, 48 minutes shorter than the character, and was studying at the University 5CD version of The Algebraist. of Edinburgh when I first read it. Where would Prentice be now he is nearing forty? Foreign Releases We also look back at Eastercon, and report on The US paperback edition of The Algebraist Banks‟s appearance at the Edinburgh Book was published on June 15, by Night Shade Festival, as well as a couple of Banks related Books (ISBN: 1597800449). A US events that are forthcoming, and the usual unabridged recording of this work has been news reports. released by Recorded Books, it is available on Thanks this issue go to Peter Capaldi for the 21 CDs (ISBN: 1419353780) or 17 cassettes interview by email, as well as Lucia at his (ISBN: 1419353764). management company for arranging it. The Meanwhile the Germans will be getting their Armchair Anarchist wrote the Eastercon own language version, Der Algebraist, at the article and the combination of Roger Peyton end of October courtesy of publisher Heyne (photographer) and Numbers (camera owner) Verlag. ISBN: 345352201X. produced the picture. Coercri wrote the report of Banks‟s appearance at the Le Sens du vent (Look to Windward) was Edinburgh International Book Festival which recently published in paperback form in took place on August 16th. As ever this France, along with La Plage de verre fanzine wouldn‟t be what it is without Iain (Against a Dark Background). (M.) Banks. The Banksoniain Issue #10, Page #1 into the Postmodernism section in a chapter Media Scanner called „Player of Games: Iain (M.) Banks, Ross Anderson wrote an article about Jean-François Lyotard and Sublime Terror‟ „Whisky with food?‟ for The Times by Cairns Craig. ISBN: 0748618945 (Hbk) 0748618953 (Pbk) (21/03/06). Concluding with a tasting of various brands of Glenfiddich he quoted Iain Joel Rickett reported in The Guardian as describing it as “brilliantly different and (23/06/06) that Orbit, Banks‟s SF publisher unimprovably stunning”, before adding his was setting up Orbit USA to break into the own comment about this statement: “as usual, American market. It will be run by Tim he's right.” Holman who moves from being editorial The G2 section of The Guardian (27/04/06) director at Orbit. Previously Mr Holman was looked at what it described as “famous Iain‟s editor so there could be a possibility of new Banks SF editions over there. author-musician hookups” in an article by Alexis Petridis. The Iain Banks – Chris Coco An online survey conducted by The Book track, Dreaming, from the 2002 album Next Magazine named JK Rowling as Britain‟s Wave was include and described as “A noble greatest living writer with Iain Banks at #14. effort by the co-presenter of Radio 1's Blue Alasdair Gray made equal 19th. Room to reclaim chill-out music from the coffee table by getting the Scots author to At the Edinburgh Book Festival (see pages read from his revenge fantasy novel Canal #11-12) Iain mentioned his playing of the Dreams over slow-motion beats”, but then computer game Civilisation, and separately describe Iain as seeming “diffident about the admitted that his new book had been delayed. end result”, quoting him as saying “I won't be The Pandora column in The Independent queuing up outside record companies to do (18/12/06) put these snippets together and blamed the game for the hold-up. any more”. An intriguing analogy was made by Anna Burnside when reviewing Thomas Legendre‟s Imagining Albion book, The Burning, in The Sunday Times Iain‟s contribution to the BBC Radio 4 (26/02/06). Describing it as “a hefty read, a programme mentioned in the last issue has campus novel with extra astrophysics, green been broadcast. It turned out to be a four part polemics and knee-grazing sex”, she series from Francis Spufford called Imagining continued: “If Iain Banks had swapped Albion which began on June 22nd with an science fiction for hiking and sustainable episode subtitled „Big Brother and the Brave development, he might have written New World‟ and which looked at Utopias. something very similar.” Wells and Huxley were discussed in the bulk Iain has given permission for the website of the programme before it jumped forward to recent works which covered Iain Banks. ScotlanWhisky.com to publish an extract from Raw Spirit about Islay on their website, An interesting take on Banks was expressed and they have augmented the text with some by Robert Hanks in his review of the first nice, and relevant, pictures. episode in The Independent (28/06/06). See http://www.scotlandwhisky.com/355124/355418 Hanks commented that “nearly all utopias The Contemporary British Novel, a new book turn out to be dystopias at second or third edited by James Acheson and Sarah Ross was glance”, and continued, “Iain M Banks got published in January. It concentrates on closer in discussing „the Culture‟, a want-free authors whose first novels were published society that features in several of his novels: after 1980, and so includes Iain (M.) Banks in despite the fact that they have everything, he the twenty-two novelists for which specially said, the Culture's inhabitants are still commissioned essays have been written. The unhappy, because they are human. He and book is divided into four parts, each focussing Huxley were saying the same thing: to be on a particular approach. Iain has been placed human is to be unhappy; therefore, to be happy is to be inhuman.” The Banksoniain Issue #10, Page #2 Bridging Fantasies: The Alt-Fiction 2007 Fiction of Iain M. Banks Alt-Fiction is a one-day celebration of Iain Banks Conference science-fiction, fantasy and horror writing. Iain Banks has agreed to appear at next year‟s The UK Network for Modern Fiction are event in the Darwin Suite of the Assembly organising a conference on Iain (M) Banks at Rooms in Derby on April 28th. You can keep the University of Westminster for Saturday nd up to date with news about the event at the 2 September 2006. There will be a small weekly blog run by the organiser Alex Davis charge (in the region of £10) for at: http://altfiction2007.blogspot.com/ administration and refreshments. The 2006 event was the first Alt-Fiction to Tim Middleton who wrote the introduction take place, occurring on May 6th, running article for the special edition of Foundation: from 12:30 to 20:30, and having the stated The International Review of Science aim of giving fans and aspiring writers of the Fiction (#76, Summer 1999) about Iain M genres a chance to meet published authors and Banks will be giving the introductory keynote to find out more about being published. Last plenary lecture which will focus on Iain‟s use year‟s programme had three concurrent of Scottish landscape and history. This streams: firstly, a Q&A stream of 45 minute should have particular emphasis on The Crow sessions with authors; secondly, more Road, and its alternative geography of the intimate and interactive author readings and Argyll area. The closing plenary is from discussions; and finally a workshop stream. Andrew Butler who wrote the article The Guests and panellists included authors as well Strange Case of Mr Banks: Doubles and The as publishers, editors and agents. Wasp Factory in the edition of Foundation mentioned above. Both these articles are The organiser, Alex Davis, has a blog at: briefly discussed in Banksoniain #3. http://altfiction2007.blogspot.com/ The two other sessions in the day long programme give participants the option to Radio Cafe attend one of three concurrently running panels that have two or three papers each to The recording that was made at the Edinburgh discuss.
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