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Iain Banks Banks Book Should Be Appearing in the Shops Is an IT Worker with a Very Interesting Hobby The Banksoniain #5 An Iain (M.) Banks Fanzine February 2005 Editorial Publication News Issue #5, and I have started putting a big The US edition of The State of the Art was number in the banner title as I got confused at finally published by Night Shade Books. This Novacon where I had copies of both #3 and small publishing house managed to secure the #4 to distribute and had trouble telling them rights through contacts made when they apart with a single glance. produced editions of two of M. John This issue’s featured book which gets the Harrison’s works; Things That Never Happen ‘book biography’ treatment is Espedair and The Course of the Heart. The two Street. As one of Iain’s straightest books – a authors have the same agent and are friends. black comedy on being a rock star – it has Near the end of January came the news that also seen the most interest from those seeking the company had also obtained the US rights to produce adaptations. Only one of those – to The Algebraist. Banks’s latest book is the radio play – has seen the light of day, but currently scheduled for publication in the the stories of the film, the album, the musical USA in September 2005. A signed limited are told in a companion piece - The edition version is also planned. Unwritten Banks. Much of the Banks The UK paperback in B format of The Obscura column also follows the musical Algebraist (ISBN: 1841492299) is currently theme and looks at Iain’s own musical taste, listed for publication on July 4th. The Italian related trivia and Banks inspired music. rights for this book have been picked up by For those of you more interested in the Editrice Nord. science fiction of Iain M. Banks the Critical Banks column reviews an article examining Banks Live the politics of the Culture and its intervention Iain will be appearing with Ken MacLeod at policy. the Glasgow Writer’s Festival on 24th February 2005. See http://www.glasgow.gov.uk Iain’s own political activities have seen him in the press and he has added DVD reviewing Iain will be on his own when he returns to his to his regular album evaluating. All of which old university to talk at the MacRobert is covered with various other TV, radio and Centre, Stirling on 9th March 2005 at 19:00. newspaper appearances in a larger than usual See http://www.macrobert.org/ Media Scanner column. Banks in Translation looks at the titles Banks’s Next Books available in Turkey which includes Espedair The new contract is signed and the next Street. This issue’s Not “THE” Iain Banks Banks book should be appearing in the shops is an IT worker with a very interesting hobby. around the summer of 2006. This will be a Thanks to Gary Lloyd (who has sent me so mainstream one which he plans to start much information that we will probably have thinking about in the early summer and an article about his musical work on many writing in October. For the Culture deprived Banks related projects for the next four or five amongst you, a reminder that the one after issues), Roger Gray, Joe Dunlop, Dave that will see a return to your beloved setting. Batchelor and, of course, Iain Banks himself. He already has the beginning worked out. The Banksoniain Issue #5, Page #1 Media Scanner down-to-earth as his characters”. In the same paper (11/12/04) it made Philip Horne's Too late for issue #4, the Daily Telegraph “DVDs of the Year” list and was described as (6/11/04) published their review of The a “welcome DVD release for this immensely Algebraist under the title “When wormholes satisfying TV adaptation of Iain Banks's collapse; A space opera on a gigantic scale erudite detective novel”. It also noted that impresses Andrew McKie.”. He did find “Banks himself describes as 'better in every some points to criticise "It is too long. It has way than the novel'” and that on the Internet crude moments. There are points at which Movie Database is gets a rating of 9.1 out of one loses the thread - and, more alarmingly, 10, “beating Citizen Kane, North by suspects the author has, too", before Northwest and The Godfather.” concluding that “There is ambition of purpose Iain presented the writing award to Louise here which matches the scale of the action.” Welsh (author of The Cutting Room) at the The SFX review of 2004 saw John Jarrold Glenfiddich Spirit of Scotland Awards pick The Algebraist as one of the 10 books of (Scotsman 16/11/04). The award ceremony the year. The review commented that as usual was broadcast on Scottish TV (30/11/04). with Banks you “get plenty of bangs for your The answers for the Bookworm's Christmas bucks” and called it “the best of his non- Quiz were published in the Daily Mail Culture books”. (14/01/05) included Iain M. Banks. The Another review that did not see the light of question “Under what name (precisely) does cyberspace before issue #4 was that on the Iain Banks write his science-fiction novels?” Amazon website. David Langford describes had been set in the edition from 17/12/04 the story of Fassin’s journey and discoveries which also reported of The List's annual as “exhilarating, witty, sometimes mind- “Hot 100” of the country's most creative boggling” before commenting on the people. The List is a Scottish entertainment weaponry and the Dwellers and concluding listing magazine. Top were pop band Franz that “Once again Banks is having enormous Ferdinand. Iain Banks was at #75 ahead of fun with space opera, and his exuberant fellow author Ian Rankin #85 but way behind enjoyment is infectious.” Alexander McCall Smith (Number One Ladies Detective Agency) at #10. Speaking of Amazon, a short video clip of Iain talking about Dead Air can be found on Banks was one of the Edinburgh Festival their page for the paperback edition – look for participants that signed a giant letter to the “Watch the Author” link. The twenty-six Chancellor Gordon Brown as part of the second clip has Iain introducing the book he Make Poverty History campaign reported the described it as a “polemical thriller” with bits Autumn newsletter of Jubilee Scotland of comedy and tragedy and hoped it kept you (www.jubileescotland.org.uk). on the edge of your seat (like the central Reports that Banks was supporting the call to character was for a while) and was enjoyable. impeach the Prime Minister, put him The Algebraist continued to feature in the alongside playwright Harold Pinter, musician Hardback fiction bestseller lists in The Brian Eno (Newcastle Journal 24/11/04), Independent, at #7 (5/11/04) and #8 author Frederick Forsyth and actors Susan (12/11/04) but was not in the top ten Wooldridge, Andy de la Tour and Corin published on 19/11/04. Redgrave (Daily Telegraph 25/11/04). The actual press conference was apparently a bit Benjamin Secher reviewed The Crow Road of a farce, with the politicians unable to on DVD for the Daily Telegraph (12/11/04) organise a suitable room. describing the series as “fine television, redolent with dark humour, and faultlessly The Mirror (20/12/04) reported that Iain cast”. Mentioning the extras he says “Banks Banks and AL Kennedy had backed the himself appears in an interview that shows the mother of a “Scottish soldier killed in Iraq burly Scot to be every bit as endearing and who had made a film to send to Cherie Blair.” The Banksoniain Issue #5, Page #2 Alastair Gilmour wrote about Glenfiddich in he also said that there was some filler and The Newcastle Journal (27/11/04) and that he “bailed out when Yoko started mentioned how in Raw Spirit, Iain Banks had singing”. Iain was impressed by The picked out their Havana Reserve as his Autumns self-titled album, but thought their favourite. chord structures “went out in the fifties”. Life Blood by The Manic Street Preachers was Banks popped up on The DVD Collection described a beautifully produced product that (19/11/04) on the digital television channel got in the way of hearing the tunes. Iain BBC4 to review the special edition of George commented that it sometimes took him quite a Lucas’s THX-1138. Iain commented that he few listens to decide if he did actually like a watched it in the early 1970s and was a bit record and that the jury was still out on this bored then and was a little bit bored watching last one, but he probably did like it. it again but it was worthy of viewing and enjoyed seeing the “Lucasian tropes”. Banks missed his scheduled appearance on Describing it as a fable rather than a vision of Saturday 15/01/05 when he called in sick that the future he thought Robert Duval’s morning. A mostly recuperated Banks did performance was very good playing against appear on 22/01/05 and reviewed albums the brain numbing blandness of the design. from: Mercury Rev, Gruff Rhys and Emiliana Iain then wondered what would happen if Torrini, and ranked them in that order. Iain Lucas had not moved on the do adolescent will buy the first and put it on his new iPod. films. Stuart Marconie chose it as the best of Marc asked for a quick update on the flying the films reviewed that week, calling it “sci- fi lessons and Iain said that he managed three for grown ups, with characters that you would very good landings in his last lesson and be hard pushed to turn into posable figurines”.
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