Over 30 years since I first read this. Such an incredible book and such a loss to not have him around anymore.
#booksky #iainbanks
#booksky #iainbanks
June 21, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Over 30 years since I first read this. Such an incredible book and such a loss to not have him around anymore.
#booksky #iainbanks
#booksky #iainbanks
February 21, 2026 at 6:11 AM
On this day in 1984 the Wasp Factory was published.
#OnThisDay #Books #BookSky #TheWaspFactory #IainBanks
#OnThisDay #Books #BookSky #TheWaspFactory #IainBanks
February 16, 2026 at 9:00 AM
On this day in 1984 the Wasp Factory was published.
#OnThisDay #Books #BookSky #TheWaspFactory #IainBanks
#OnThisDay #Books #BookSky #TheWaspFactory #IainBanks
“The trouble with writing fiction is that it has to make sense, whereas real life doesn't.”
✒️ #IainBanks, Scottish author, #DOTD 9 June 2013. #Literature
✒️ #IainBanks, Scottish author, #DOTD 9 June 2013. #Literature
June 9, 2026 at 3:12 AM
“The trouble with writing fiction is that it has to make sense, whereas real life doesn't.”
✒️ #IainBanks, Scottish author, #DOTD 9 June 2013. #Literature
✒️ #IainBanks, Scottish author, #DOTD 9 June 2013. #Literature
30 years ago my friend Mark Wilson drew a comic strip for a fanzine that another friend - Kev Bowyer - and I were behind. It contained his vision of some scenes from the life of the wonderful Iain Banks.
Turns out he loved them. #IainBanks #IainMBanks
Turns out he loved them. #IainBanks #IainMBanks
August 30, 2025 at 1:09 PM
30 years ago my friend Mark Wilson drew a comic strip for a fanzine that another friend - Kev Bowyer - and I were behind. It contained his vision of some scenes from the life of the wonderful Iain Banks.
Turns out he loved them. #IainBanks #IainMBanks
Turns out he loved them. #IainBanks #IainMBanks
June 24, 2026 at 7:31 PM
Being in this spot always brings to mind one of my all time favourites books. #iainbanks #bookishpost #scottishfiction
October 24, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Being in this spot always brings to mind one of my all time favourites books. #iainbanks #bookishpost #scottishfiction
“The trouble with writing fiction is that it has to make sense, whereas real life doesn't.”
✒️ Remembering #IainBanks, Scottish author, #DOTD 9 June 2013. #Literature #Writing
✒️ Remembering #IainBanks, Scottish author, #DOTD 9 June 2013. #Literature #Writing
June 9, 2025 at 2:55 AM
“The trouble with writing fiction is that it has to make sense, whereas real life doesn't.”
✒️ Remembering #IainBanks, Scottish author, #DOTD 9 June 2013. #Literature #Writing
✒️ Remembering #IainBanks, Scottish author, #DOTD 9 June 2013. #Literature #Writing
The Lesekreis has chosen: Als nächstes lesen wir #ConsiderPhlebas von #IainBanks.
November 1, 2025 at 2:03 PM
The Lesekreis has chosen: Als nächstes lesen wir #ConsiderPhlebas von #IainBanks.
Iain Banks: a talent and inspiration.
“The trouble with writing fiction is that it has to make sense, whereas real life doesn't”
#amwriting #writers #writersofbluesky #writing #booksky #writingcommunity #writersnetwork #iainbanks #iainmbanks
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“The trouble with writing fiction is that it has to make sense, whereas real life doesn't”
#amwriting #writers #writersofbluesky #writing #booksky #writingcommunity #writersnetwork #iainbanks #iainmbanks
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July 25, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Iain Banks: a talent and inspiration.
“The trouble with writing fiction is that it has to make sense, whereas real life doesn't”
#amwriting #writers #writersofbluesky #writing #booksky #writingcommunity #writersnetwork #iainbanks #iainmbanks
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“The trouble with writing fiction is that it has to make sense, whereas real life doesn't”
#amwriting #writers #writersofbluesky #writing #booksky #writingcommunity #writersnetwork #iainbanks #iainmbanks
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Re-watching the pretty decent film adaptation of 'Complicity' by #IainBanks and thinking that there ought to be more tv series/films of his work. 'Espedair Street' would work really well, I think.
July 11, 2024 at 8:33 PM
Re-watching the pretty decent film adaptation of 'Complicity' by #IainBanks and thinking that there ought to be more tv series/films of his work. 'Espedair Street' would work really well, I think.
“Even if we resort to drinking alone, we drink with memories and ghosts.”
#IainBanks #RawSpirit
#always
#IainBanks #RawSpirit
#always
April 15, 2025 at 3:19 PM
“Even if we resort to drinking alone, we drink with memories and ghosts.”
#IainBanks #RawSpirit
#always
#IainBanks #RawSpirit
#always
Found an interview from 1992 with #IainBanks on the release of #TheCrowRoad
The third paragraph says a lot about the #TheWaspFactory without explaining "What happened to Eric".
The third paragraph says a lot about the #TheWaspFactory without explaining "What happened to Eric".
November 25, 2024 at 7:28 PM
Found an interview from 1992 with #IainBanks on the release of #TheCrowRoad
The third paragraph says a lot about the #TheWaspFactory without explaining "What happened to Eric".
The third paragraph says a lot about the #TheWaspFactory without explaining "What happened to Eric".
The #BookBoxes have been opened and I thought it would be fun to post #BookCovers #OldBookCovers from #MyLibrary
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One for #sciencefiction / #scifi aficionados from #IainBanks / #IainMBanks : )
#TheCulture #Readers #Reading #BookLovers #LoveReading #LoveBooks #ReadingBooks
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One for #sciencefiction / #scifi aficionados from #IainBanks / #IainMBanks : )
#TheCulture #Readers #Reading #BookLovers #LoveReading #LoveBooks #ReadingBooks
January 15, 2025 at 6:53 PM
The #BookBoxes have been opened and I thought it would be fun to post #BookCovers #OldBookCovers from #MyLibrary
18
One for #sciencefiction / #scifi aficionados from #IainBanks / #IainMBanks : )
#TheCulture #Readers #Reading #BookLovers #LoveReading #LoveBooks #ReadingBooks
18
One for #sciencefiction / #scifi aficionados from #IainBanks / #IainMBanks : )
#TheCulture #Readers #Reading #BookLovers #LoveReading #LoveBooks #ReadingBooks
"Perdition awaits at the end of a road constructed entirely from good intentions, the devil emerges from the details and hell abides in the small print."
✒ Remembering author #IainBanks, #BOTD 16 February 1954. #Literature #SciFi
✒ Remembering author #IainBanks, #BOTD 16 February 1954. #Literature #SciFi
February 16, 2025 at 12:57 AM
"Perdition awaits at the end of a road constructed entirely from good intentions, the devil emerges from the details and hell abides in the small print."
✒ Remembering author #IainBanks, #BOTD 16 February 1954. #Literature #SciFi
✒ Remembering author #IainBanks, #BOTD 16 February 1954. #Literature #SciFi
Pinktober Day 10
Subject: DEAD GRAN MORNING
This instantly brought to mind the greatest opening line of any book, The Crow Road by the much missed Iain Banks.
@culturehustle.bsky.social #PINKTOBER #DailyDoodle #ACEO
#IainBanks #TheCrowRoad
Subject: DEAD GRAN MORNING
This instantly brought to mind the greatest opening line of any book, The Crow Road by the much missed Iain Banks.
@culturehustle.bsky.social #PINKTOBER #DailyDoodle #ACEO
#IainBanks #TheCrowRoad
October 10, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Pinktober Day 10
Subject: DEAD GRAN MORNING
This instantly brought to mind the greatest opening line of any book, The Crow Road by the much missed Iain Banks.
@culturehustle.bsky.social #PINKTOBER #DailyDoodle #ACEO
#IainBanks #TheCrowRoad
Subject: DEAD GRAN MORNING
This instantly brought to mind the greatest opening line of any book, The Crow Road by the much missed Iain Banks.
@culturehustle.bsky.social #PINKTOBER #DailyDoodle #ACEO
#IainBanks #TheCrowRoad
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
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#BookSky
#Books
#BookChallenge
#20BookChallenge
#IainBanks
#ForthRailBridge
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#BookSky
#Books
#BookChallenge
#20BookChallenge
#IainBanks
#ForthRailBridge
December 4, 2024 at 9:43 AM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
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#BookSky
#Books
#BookChallenge
#20BookChallenge
#IainBanks
#ForthRailBridge
13
#BookSky
#Books
#BookChallenge
#20BookChallenge
#IainBanks
#ForthRailBridge
Iain Banks references in games, my beloved #starsector #iainbanks
October 24, 2024 at 1:02 AM
Iain Banks references in games, my beloved #starsector #iainbanks
Just Testing GCV
Giant Squid - Original progressive surf rock by Scone Mason
#instrumental #guitar #surfrock #outsidermusic #diymusic #12-string #Cultureshipnames #Iainbanks @surfyindustries @wampler @electroharmonix @pigtronix
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Giant Squid - Original progressive surf rock by Scone Mason
#instrumental #guitar #surfrock #outsidermusic #diymusic #12-string #Cultureshipnames #Iainbanks @surfyindustries @wampler @electroharmonix @pigtronix
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Just Testing GCV
YouTube video by Shaun Mason
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February 19, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Just Testing GCV
Giant Squid - Original progressive surf rock by Scone Mason
#instrumental #guitar #surfrock #outsidermusic #diymusic #12-string #Cultureshipnames #Iainbanks @surfyindustries @wampler @electroharmonix @pigtronix
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Giant Squid - Original progressive surf rock by Scone Mason
#instrumental #guitar #surfrock #outsidermusic #diymusic #12-string #Cultureshipnames #Iainbanks @surfyindustries @wampler @electroharmonix @pigtronix
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March 3, 2025 at 5:46 AM
Here's one I wrote earlier. My review for @strangehorizons.bsky.social of Poems (2015) by Iain Banks and Ken MacLeod. The proletarian answer to the modernist question lives on. Great poetry too. #ScottishSFF. #RoadToGlasgow2024 #Worldcon #Glasgow2024 #KenMacLeod #IainBanks
Poems by Iain Banks and Ken MacLeod
What the well-merited publication of the Poems shows is how an apparently doomed constellation of politics and aesthetics from the 1970s was able to become the seed of two bodies of work that have …
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July 27, 2024 at 10:24 AM
Here's one I wrote earlier. My review for @strangehorizons.bsky.social of Poems (2015) by Iain Banks and Ken MacLeod. The proletarian answer to the modernist question lives on. Great poetry too. #ScottishSFF. #RoadToGlasgow2024 #Worldcon #Glasgow2024 #KenMacLeod #IainBanks
#IndependentBookshopWeek #BBBookChallenge 📚💙 #BookSky
#Day5: A Book with a One-Word Title
#Whit, by #IainBanks. One of my favourite books from one of my all time favouite authors.
@bridgebooksdromore.bsky.social
#Day5: A Book with a One-Word Title
#Whit, by #IainBanks. One of my favourite books from one of my all time favouite authors.
@bridgebooksdromore.bsky.social
June 18, 2025 at 10:34 PM
#IndependentBookshopWeek #BBBookChallenge 📚💙 #BookSky
#Day5: A Book with a One-Word Title
#Whit, by #IainBanks. One of my favourite books from one of my all time favouite authors.
@bridgebooksdromore.bsky.social
#Day5: A Book with a One-Word Title
#Whit, by #IainBanks. One of my favourite books from one of my all time favouite authors.
@bridgebooksdromore.bsky.social
Great sci-fi books make me happy! I got into Iain Banks work not long before he died. His work has always been great! Can't wait to get back into the Culture universe.
#booksky📚💙
#booksky🪐📚
#iainmbanks
#iainbanks
#scifibook
#theculture
#booksky📚💙
#booksky🪐📚
#iainmbanks
#iainbanks
#scifibook
#theculture
December 16, 2024 at 6:45 PM
Great sci-fi books make me happy! I got into Iain Banks work not long before he died. His work has always been great! Can't wait to get back into the Culture universe.
#booksky📚💙
#booksky🪐📚
#iainmbanks
#iainbanks
#scifibook
#theculture
#booksky📚💙
#booksky🪐📚
#iainmbanks
#iainbanks
#scifibook
#theculture
Le cycle de la culture sera bien adapté par Prime Vidéo !
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#sciencefiction #cycledelaculture #IainBanks #PrimeVideo #AmazonMG
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#sciencefiction #cycledelaculture #IainBanks #PrimeVideo #AmazonMG
Le cycle de la culture sera bien adapté par Prime Vidéo !
C'est l'info de la journée ! Après un abandon il y a quelques années, l'adaptation d'Une forme de guerre, premier tome du Cycle de la Culture de Iain M. Banks (19
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February 26, 2025 at 7:31 AM
Le cycle de la culture sera bien adapté par Prime Vidéo !
www.actusf.com/detail-d-un-...
#sciencefiction #cycledelaculture #IainBanks #PrimeVideo #AmazonMG
www.actusf.com/detail-d-un-...
#sciencefiction #cycledelaculture #IainBanks #PrimeVideo #AmazonMG