Iain Banks

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Iain Banks (16 February 1954 to September 2013) was a Scottish author.

Iain M. Banks is a fictional book written in the United States. (listen)) He wrote mainstream fiction under the name Iain Banks and science fiction, as well as the initials of his adopted middle name Menzies. Since the success of The Wasp Factory (1984), Banks began to write full-time.

Consider Phlebas, his first science fiction book, was published in 1987, marking the beginning of the Culture series.

His books have been adapted for theatre, radio, and television.

The Times selected Banks in 2008 as one of their list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945."

Banks reported in April 2013 that he had inoperable cancer and was unlikely to live beyond a year.

He died on September 9, 2013.

Early life

Banks were born in Dunfermline, Fife, to a mother who was an ice skater and a father who served in the Admiralty. He lived in North Queensferry until the age of nine, near the naval dockyards in Rosyth, where his father was stationed. Due to his father's work, the family was then forced to Gourock. He began reading Kemlo and the Zones of Silence by Reginald Alec Martin, which prompted him to write science fiction himself. Banks studied English, philosophy, and psychology at the University of Stirling (1972–1975).

Since graduating, economists had a series of jobs that left him free to write in the evenings. These supported his writing throughout his teens and enabled him to take long breaks between jobs, which allowed him to take long breaks between jobs, which enabled him to travel through Europe and North America. He worked as an IBM 'Expediter Analyser,' a manufacturing technician for the British Steel Corporation, and a costing clerk for a law firm in Chancery Lane during this time.

Personal life

Before the 1984 debut of his first novel in London, Banks met his first wife Annie in London. They lived in Faversham, south of England, before breaking up in 1988. The bank went back to Edinburgh and dated another woman for two years. A year later, Iain and Annie were reconciled, and they moved to Fife. They were married in Hawaii in 1992 but announced their divorce in 2007 after 15 years of marriage.

When his car was rolled off the road in 1998, the bank was in a near-fatal accident. Banks sold his extensive vehicle collection in February 2007, including a 3.2-litre Porsche Boxster, a Porsche 911 Turbo, a 3.8-litre BMW Mark II, a 5-litre BMW M5 and a daily use diesel Land Rover Defender, which had his power increased by around 50%. All these Banks exchanged for a Lexus RX 400h hybrid, which was later replaced by a diesel Toyota Yaris, and said he would only fly in emergencies.

"Acting Honorary Non-Executive Figurehead President Elect pro tem (trainee)" of the Science Fiction Book Club, a London institution, became the "Acting Honorary Non-Executive Figurehead President Elect pro tem (trainee) in April 2012. The name was his invention, and banks at the time of October 3, 2012, Banks accepted a T-shirt inscribed with it.

Banks lived in North Queensferry on the north side of Forth's Firth of Forth with his partner Adele Hartley, an author and producer of the Dead by Dawn film festival. Since being neighbors since the early 1990s, she and Banks began dating in 2006 and married on March 29, 2013 after he asked her to "do me the privilege of becoming my widow."

Banks revealed on his website and on one set up by him and some others that he had been diagnosed with terminal gallbladder cancer and was unlikely to live beyond a year. He said he would be withdrawing from all public activities and that The Quarry would be his last book. The Quarry's publication dates were postponed at Banks' request to the UK and Canada's 25 June 2013 and June 2013. On June 9, 2013, he died on September 9, 2013.

"Uniquely a part of the literary world," the banker called him. Ken MacLeod, a fellow Scottish writer and mentor, was reaffirmed by his death: "There was a major gap in the Scottish literary scene as well as the English-speaking world." "One of the giants of twentieth- and 21st century Scottish literature has left the building," British author Charles Stross wrote. Authors, including Neil Gaiman, Ian Rankin, Alastair Reynolds, and David Brin, have paid their respects in blogs and elsewhere.

After his death, the asteroid 5099 Iainbanks was named. SpaceX's CEO Elon Musk revealed two of the firm's autonomous spaceport drone ships on Sunday, according to Banks' book The Player of Games. In 2018, A Shortfall of Gravitas began construction. This is related to the ship's exhaustion. Look to Windward, A Large Gravitas Shortfall was first recorded.

"Dedicated to the memory of Iain (M) Banks, mentor, and sorely lacking designer of socialist utopias, the Red Virgin and the Vision of Utopia, Mary M. Talbot and Bryan Talbot's 2016 graphic biography, is "Dedicated to the memory of his son, brother, and sorely missed creator of socialist utopias."

"For Iain M. Banks, who painted a picture of a better way," Empire Games, Charles Stross' seventh book in the Merchant Princes series, was released in 2017.

The Five Deeps Expedition set the DSV Limiting Factor's deepest ocean dive record on May 13, 2019. DSSV Pressure Drop was the support ship, which was dubbed the DSSV Pressure Drop. Both ships were named after ships in the Culture series, which is much admired by explorer Victor Vescovo, as well as the financial support behind Limiting Factor's design and construction.

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Career

At the age of 11, banks began writing. In his first year at Stirling University in 1972, he wrote The Hungarian Lift-Jet, his first book, and TTR (also called The Tashkent Rambler). Despite the fact that he was primarily a science fiction writer, his publishing woes led him to pursue mainstream fiction. When he was thirty, his first published book The Wasp Factory appeared in 1984. Banks began to write full time following the success of The Wasp Factory. James Hale, Macmillan's editor, told him a year ago to write a book, which he obliged to do.

Walking on Glass followed in 1985, followed by The Bridge in 1986, and finally Espeair Street in 1987, which was later broadcast as a series on BBC Radio 4. Consider Phlebas, his first published science fiction book, appeared in 1987 and was the first of many in the acclaimed Culture series. As influence, banks cited Robert A. Heinlein, Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke, Brian Aldiss, M. John Harrison, and Dan Simmons. The Crow Road, which was released in 1992, was made into a BBC television series. Both science fiction and mainstream were continued by banks as writers. In June 2013, the month of his death, his last book The Quarry appeared in June 2013.

Both banks have published work under two names. His parents had intended to name him "Iain Menzies Banks," but his father mistakenly registered him as "Iain Banks." The Wasp Factory was still using the middle name and submitted the newspaper as "Iain M. Banks." The editor of Banks inquired about the possibility of omitting the 'M' because it was "too fussy" and that a potential problem with Rosie M. Banks, a romantic novelist in the Jeeves series, was resolved; bankers accepted the offer. Banks' editors accepted his first science fiction (SF) book Consider Phlebas after three mainstream books. Banks suggested returning the letter 'M' to his name, which was then used in all of his science fiction books, in order to distinguish between the mainstream and the SF.

Banks had published 26 books by the time he died in June 2013. This is the 27th book in The Quarry was published posthumously. In February 2015, his last work, a poetry collection, appeared. In an interview in January 2013, he also mentioned that he had the plot idea for another book in the Culture series, which would most likely have been his next book and was scheduled for publication in 2014.

Banks wrote in various genres, but science fiction captured their interest.

In September 2012, Banks became a Guest of Honour at the 2014 World Science Fiction Convention in Loncon 3.

Banks were the subject of The Strange Worlds of Iain Banks South Bank Show (1997), a TV documentary that explored his mainstream writing, and he was an in-studio interview for Marc Riley's final episode of his Rocket Science radio show, which was broadcast on BBC Radio 6 Music. On September 1999, an audio version of The Business, arranged by Paul Oakenfold, was released as the tenth Urban Soundtracks. The State of the Art, a radio program adapted for radio by Paul Cornell, was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2009, with Nadia Molinari producing and directing. Espedair Street, a serial for Radio 4, was dramatized by Paul Gambaccini in the style of a Radio 1 documentary in 1998.

Banks appeared on the BBC Radio 4 program Saturday Live in 2011. In this appearance, the bank reiterated his atheism, describing death as a vital "part of life" that should be treated realistically rather than afraid.

Banks appeared on BBC television show Question Time, a programme that includes political debate. He led a team of writers to victory in a unique series of BBC Two's Universities Challenge in 2006. The author selected "Malt whisky and the distilleries of Scotland" as his target subject in a 2006 edition of BBC One's Celebrity Mastermind; the bank also won a 2006 edition of "Celebrity Mastermind."

Iain Banks: Raw Spirit, June 13, 2013 - Kirsty Wark, broadcast on BBC2 Scotland.

In June 2015, BBC One Scotland and BBC2 broadcast an adaptation of his novel Stonemouth.

At the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 1999, the bank was involved in the stage performance The Curse of Iain Banks, written by Maxton Walker and performed at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. For example, banks collaborated often with music composer Gary Lloyd, for instance on a song collection titled "Frozen Gold from Banks' novel Espedair Street." Lloyd was also credited with a spoken word and music version of his book The Bridge, which Banks himself wrote about and that featured a cast of 40 musicians and was released on CD by Codex Records in 1996. Lloyd credited Banks for including himself in the play as a disembodied voice of himself in one of the cast members' dreams. In a Guardian article prior to the opening of The Curse of Iain Banks, Lloyd discussed his collaboration with Banks on their first Espedair Street (later versions being dated between 2005 and 2013).

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