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The Banksoniain #7 an Iain (M.) Banks Fanzine August 2005 The Banksoniain #7 An Iain (M.) Banks Fanzine August 2005 Editorial Banks Live Apologies for a shorter edition than normal, Iain will be making his usual appearance at but the last one was a little late and this one is the Edinburgh Book Festival on Friday 19th a little early in the notional schedule as I rd August at 20:00 in the Main Theatre in what wanted to get it out in time for the 63 World is billed as The ‘Dickson Minto’ Event. Science Fiction Convention – Interaction – th th Tickets are £8.00. Iain is reading in the being held in Glasgow, August 4 - 8 . Imprisoned Writers stream earlier that day Anyway without pictures there are still over 17:30 in a free event (pick up tickets on the five thousand words of Banksinalia within. th day). The theme on the 19 is ‘Resistance The jiggery-pokery that last issue saw The and Opposition’. More details at the website: State of the Art slotted into Banks’s UK http://www.edbookfest.co.uk/ publication order with its US publication date, means that this issue’s featured book is The Publication News Player of Games rather than Canal Dreams – The US edition of The Algebraist is still on it’s all part of the Masterplan. The centre- course for its September publication by Night spread ‘book biography’ looks, as usual, at Shade Books. The cover was unveiled in late the context of the book within Banks’s July sporting a ‘Hugo Nominee’ tag, and a oeuvre, the critical reaction it received, and good SF “squids in space” illustration that introduces some of ideas that commentators could be young Dwellers. No details of the have picked up in the novel. There is also a ‘extras’ that are planned for the signed limited column on the story of the film of the book edition yet. Meanwhile, an unabridged The Algebraist UK paperback publicity tour reading of The Algebraist has been recorded gets a quick overview with Banks’s by Geoffrey Annis and was released by W F appearance in Cambridge covered in depth. Howes in April 2005. ISBN: 1845053079. There is also a short article about the makeover that has just occurred for the UK Banks’s Next Book paperback ‘M’ backlist. Currently listed for publication in September Banks in Translation heads to the Iberian 2006, by Little, Brown, so a non ‘M’, he is peninsular to celebrate the Spanish rights for currently in the planning stages of his next The Algebraist being sold. Media Scanner book, and should start writing in October with précises the press coverage that Iain has had the first draft hopefully finished by in the last few months, but a few of the other Christmas. A short article by Will Lyons in regular columns are abandoned to the Scotland on Sunday (31/07/05) noted that expediency of early publication. “the book will signal a departure from the easy, enjoyable style of his previous two The Banksoniain is available as a PDF from thrillers”, and quoted Iain as saying it “will be http://efanzines.com more surreal and not entirely based on our If you have any corrections, comments, reality” and “I am hoping it will be much suggestions or contributions then email us at: more complicated, like my earlier work: The [email protected] Bridge or Walking On Glass." Small Print: © 2005 The Banksoniain and its writers. The Banksoniain Issue #7, Page #1 Media Scanner Peace Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi who is currently living under house arrest. Iain read KJ Parker was asked in a recent interview from her letters along with author Liz with SF Crowsnest, “Do you have any Lochead and MSP Sarah Boyack. particular favourite authors who have Iain’s appearance as an approximately influenced your work?” Part of his response monthly album reviewer on the weekly BBC was: “I don’t much enjoy reading Iain M. 6Music radio show Rocket Science hosted by Banks, simply because his world-view and Marc Riley on 9th July was delayed by a few mine don’t coincide much; but I’ve learned an minutes owing to technical difficulties with enormous amount from his masterful use of the telecommunication link between the two structure and language.” men. Thus the usual pre-review banter in Source: http://www.computercrowsnest.com which Iain updates us on his health, how his The Independent publishes top ten book flying lessons are going, and how he hasn’t charts every Friday. On 27th May 2005 they started the next book yet was skipped and instigated a new chart devoted to “Food and they went straight to the record reviewing. Drink” in order to remove these from the The Times (09/07/05) featured some “Lit general Non-Fiction chart. Raw Spirit, the tips” from authors. Iain Banks contribution Arrow paperback edition, was at #5 in the was “To plagiarise the late Peter Cook (so first listing of this type. there's one implied tip already), it's all about The Sunday Times (05/06/05) commented in the three P's: practise, practise, practise. a profile of Charles Stross that he could “join Writing is like everything else; the more you the ranks of Iain Banks and JG Ballard as a do it, the better you get.” writer who commands mainstream respect as It was reported in The Guardian (22/07/05) well as a cult following” if he won this year's that the poster advertisements for The Hugo. Algebraist had attracted a complaint to the The current standings in the vote for the Best Advertising Standards Authority. The Scottish Book of All Time were discussed in posters, which appeared in the London The Daily Mail (09/06/05) with Sunset Song Underground amongst other places, carried a by Lewis Grassic Gibbon in first place ahead quote from the review by Justina Robson in of Game of Kings by Dorothy Dunnett. The Guardian (23/10/04), which said that Modern favourites such as Trainspotting by the book was “a perfect place to have your Irvine Welsh at #5 and The Wasp Factory by mind blown to smithereens”. The ASA Iain Banks at #8 lagged behind these and spokesman was saying, “Given the recent others with the rest of the top ten being: #3 attacks on the Tube they [the complainer] felt Lanark by Alasdair Gray; #4 Confessions of a this was not appropriate, so we are in the Justified Sinner by James Hogg; #6 An process of looking at this to see if action Oidhche Mus Do Sheol Sinn by Aonghas needs to be taken.” Padraig Caimbeul; #7 Silver Darlings by Neil On April 5th Banks was a member of a panel Gunn; #9 The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by at the Edinburgh Science Festival with the Muriel Spark; and #10 Kidnapped by Robert scientists Bob Kibble and Ron Wheelton, and Louis Stevenson. Voting continues until the writer Andrew Wilson, which discussed August 25th, and can be cast via text the film Dr Strangelove. According to the message, by sending the word VOTE and the programme the film was chosen as it name of the book to 81800, or via The List's “addresses the relationship between scientists, website, http://www.list.co.uk The result will the military and the government”. be announced at the Edinburgh International Book Festival two days after the vote closes. The Edinburgh Evening News reported st (27/07/05) that Iain will appear on the BBC On June 21 Iain appeared at the National TV quiz show Mastermind. His specialist Library of Scotland in Edinburgh in ‘Fascist subject is whisky and the programme is due Disneyland: Letters from Burma’. This event for broadcast in December. Apparently the marked the sixtieth birthday of the Nobel The Banksoniain Issue #7, Page #2 producers were surprised he didn’t choose a Iain turned up next at the monthly SF reading “space travel related topic”. at Borders in Oxford Street along with Kate Banks’s ‘Cultural Life’ was explored in an Elliot and Tricia Sullivan, which took place interview with Charlotte Cripps in The on July 11th. A report posted on Live Journal Independent (29/07/05). He said that the last said that Iain was on good form. See: “proper novel” he read was Cloud Atlas by http://www.livejournal.com/users/chilperic/5386.html David Mitchell and was “very impressed” by This was followed the next day by a it. He had started Tristram Shandy, but “put lunchtime signing at Forbidden Planet in it aside because foolishly I agreed to go on Shaftsbury Avenue. Heading even further Celebrity Mastermind and I have to swot up south Iain popped up in Hove at an evening on whisky”. He is also reading “a whole event at City Books on the 14th before sequence of books on how to be a proper returning to Scotland for an evening do at pilot”. Turning to music he revealed that he Borders on Buchanan Street in Glasgow on has “19,682 iTunes on my computer”, and his the 15th. A brief report from this event posted tastes are wide ranging with name checks for: in the forum at www.iainbanks.net mentioned The Arcade Fire; Melissa auf der Maur; Led that when asked how he did research into the Zeppelin and “Haydn and Bach, especially extra-terrestrial life-forms that he had written when it is played by Glenn Gould on piano”. about Iain answered that he had a spaceship in Iain prefers watching DVDs at home to going his back garden and went off personally to to the cinema and has recently watched: The check it all out before he wrote.
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