Iain Banks News, Pictures & Buzz

Analysis: Sub-Zero Rates' Squeeze on UK Bank Profits May Scupper Lending Boom  U.S News & World Report Money

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📰 How teosinte became a weed in Europe through genetic exchange with cultivated maize – re:Jerusalem  re:Jerusalem

Burger King to test reusable cups and Whopper boxes  Nasdaq

How long will the property boom last? – Property Industry Eye  Property Industry Eye

Kim Stanley Robinson interview: Can science fiction save us?  Polygon

4 Unstoppable TSX Stocks to Buy With $4,000  The Motley Fool Canada

Hulu Acquires US Rights to 'Happiest Season'  Media Play News

Five SFF Books Built Around Dead People (Or Mostly Dead People)  tor.com

News: US Election Special For Russell Howard  Beyond The Joke

MPs urge ministers to make UK welfare system more generous  Financial Times

3 Must-Own Stocks During the U.S. Election  The Motley Fool Canada

'Excitement' for what's next for city's £100m waterside neighbourhood  Nottinghamshire Live

London deserves a great statesman in charge. Instead it has Sadiq Khan  Telegraph.co.uk

The Difference Is Entirely One of Setting: Iain Banks' The Crow Road  tor.com

REFILE-Barclays, Santander bosses call for return of bank dividends  Reuters India

Orbit pre-empts The Empire of the Wolf trilogy in six-figure deal  The Bookseller

Well Go Acquires Rights to Korea's 'Deliver Us From Evil'  Media Play News

How will the Prime Ministers plan to offer 95% mortgages work?  This is Money

11 of the best sci-fi books that transport you to another world  New Scientist News

Rolnikov: @OcTBRChallenge They're mostly such awful places to live, but a post-scarcity society like Iain Banks's Culture or… https://t.co/mnSdAcgO1w

MrCoolLooking75: RT @MJMcKean: “It was the day my grandmother exploded.” Iain Banks, The Crow Road.

gazza_d: RT @VeNT666: As the late and much missed Iain Banks put it in Quarry "I'm not arguing there are no decent people in the Tory party but they…

KevMcCready: ‘The sky above the port was grey, like the colour of televisi@~# tuned to a dead channel’ @GreatDismal, Neuromancer.… https://t.co/Zn6pFZ6ZVQ

FourWaterReed: @KSekouM @J_Motoki "It was the day my grandmother exploded" The Crow Road, Iain Banks.

Thanks for your answers.

http://www.iain-banks.net/uk/the-wasp-factory/

Did Frank really get bitten by a dog when he was younger or was his dad lying to cover up the fact that he is a girl?

So after reading Iain M Banks, there was only one thing that was bothering me. Who was the girl who told Gurgeh 'You will win!' we never found out, and i guess im not clever enough to figure out who it was, but it must have been someone within contact, reason being: she took gurgeh behind a column where no one could see them, then held the place on gurgeh's shoulder where his mic was. She disabled contact's mic, and then told him he would win, which was true. At least i believe she was part of contact. Who do you think she was? Yay, one of the two 'fluzies' from later in the story? Say who and let me know why! Thanks =D