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Iain Banks

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Technology determines the possibilities of society. It doesn't matter whether you start out from a fascist state or a communist state or a free-market state.


— Iain Banks


#determines #fascist #free-market #matter #out

I'm not a great believer in awards-of course the fact that I've never won one has nothing to do with it at all!


— Iain Banks


#course #fact #great #great believer #i

I wouldn't like to be a character in one of my books!


— Iain Banks


#character #i #like

I think the future stopped looking American when you think back to Blade Runner and Neuromancer, when it started to look more Japanese.


— Iain Banks


#back #blade #blade runner #future #i

I still find it hard to understand that anyone could argue that you can't have machines that exhibit consciousness.


— Iain Banks


#argue #consciousness #could #exhibit #find

By the usual reckoning, the worst books make the best films.


— Iain Banks


#books #films #make #reckoning #usual

You have to have something worth saying and then the ability to say it- writing's a double skill, really.


— Iain Banks


#double #really #say #saying #skill

As long as a film stays unmade, the book is entirely yours, it belongs to the writer. As soon as you make it into a film, suddenly more people see it than have ever read the book.


— Iain Banks


#book #entirely #ever #film #into






About Iain Banks

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Did you know about Iain Banks?

Banks moved to London and lived in the south of England until 1988 when he returned to Scotland living in Edinburgh and then Fife. In April 2012 Banks became the "Acting Honorary Non-Executive Figurehead President Elect pro tem (trainee)" of the Science Fiction Book Club based in London England. G.

In 2008 The Times named Banks in their list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945". Banks including the initial of his adopted middle name Menzies. Iain Banks (born on 16 February 1954) is a Scottish writer.

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