Iain Banks, in conversation with The Open University (full)

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Author Iain Banks talks to Open University Lecturer in Creative Writing Derek Neale about the digitisation of books, his writing process, the impact of world events on his work and much more.
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@DexFlett 8 лет назад

Been reading sci-fi for over 50yrs, and this man is up there with Asimov, Clarke, Herbert, Heinlein, et al. An absolute genius. He didn't die....he sublimed.

@markmyewurdz4121 2 года назад

Amen

@MJHaylett 11 лет назад

my favourite SF author hands down. I was heartbroken when I heard the news of his illness and I will be heartbroken again at the end but I will read and re-read his novels for my entire life. Legend.

@SmokeyBCN 11 лет назад

Rest in Peace Iain, I hope The Culture you created becomes reality.

@MegaBanannaman 3 года назад

❣️

@nazirkazi2588 2 года назад

That's up to us.

@bendybruce 20 дней назад

That's a beautiful sentiment. It occurs to me this may well be one of the aspects that made his books so compelling for me. He made it feel plausible And to this day I still have a deep seated hope that humanity will one day rise up and be a lot better than it is today.

@Chazie_ Год назад

Iain’s work had such a profound effect upon my life and his untimely passing really upset me almost like I’d lost a loved one rest in peaceful sublimation sir!

@xtenkfarpl 11 лет назад

RIP indeed. He seemed to be a genial and very bright fellow without a shred of arrogance. Someone you'd like to shoot the breeze with over a pint in the pub. Raising a glass in your memory, Iain.

@billyalarie929 4 года назад

i could listen to this guy speak for 5 hours. such a calming voice. such an intelligent guy. wonderful.

@croydonrudeness 10 лет назад

Ah Iain. Tis almost a year since you Sublimed (if only)!

@cacogenicist 9 лет назад

+croydonrudeness I have to think he was going to write one about the Culture "subliming," eventually. Sadly ...

@karadan100 13 лет назад

I just finished Surface Detail. I fucking loved it! I've never known a book whose final sentence made me shriek with such delight. I've read all the culture novels and it was up there (for me) with Consider Phlebas, Use of Weapons and Player of Games. Love you Iain. Keep on writing your magnificent and beautiful sci-fi.

@deanosumo 11 лет назад

Tragic loss. Every summer holiday I looked forward with anticipation to spending most of my holiday with Iain Bank's latest novel. He's gone now.

@derekbuckley1385 12 лет назад

Mr. Zakalwe, hope he and Sma make a return to print in the future!

@SLRist 12 лет назад

Feverishly consumed every Iain Banks audiobook released to date. Peter Kenny is the best audiobook actor/reader around.

@SomeGuy-mu9mt 2 года назад

My favourite writer of all time. RIP big man.

@philanderson5138 Год назад

the first interview i have seen of Iain - love his books, thank you for posting.

@blaksu 11 лет назад

He's a pleasure to listen to. Iain is a role model for my writing. He's the basis for a lot of what I try to do and his passing is impossibly sad.

@weswemyssonbass 11 лет назад

RIP, Iain. You were the greatest Scottish writer of recent times. We'll miss you. Thanks for all the wonderful stories you left us.

@timokomulainen 9 лет назад

Thank you for this great interview! I especially love how you did not cut it but gave us the full thing. Like being there.

@manekdubash5022 6 лет назад

Lovely to know his voice will remain here to enjoy...

@davidjsingle 5 лет назад

What are the chances that the video should pause for a few seconds to buffer at the precise moment when he made the humming sound?! Also: that mane!

@dysfunction1 9 лет назад

What a legend. RIP. Love the culture books

@bendybruce 21 день назад

It's fascinating listening to this breakdown some 13 years later. I think what was not really predicted was the extreme monopolization by the likes of Amazon who now hold the digital publishing industry at ransom. Authors have virtually no choice anymore and must agree to draconian contracts just to see their work published and made available to a wide audience. I seriously doubt Iain would be particularly happy with the way things have played out commercially, As things have been made very difficult for the writers.

@ApathyParabellum 10 лет назад

Oh Iain.

@peterbennett5302 10 месяцев назад

Loved this. Sadly missed author of tremendous talent and prolificacy.

@nhennessy6434 Год назад

I discovered him as an author right around 2013, shortly before his death. All I can say is what a loss.

@myNTlife 12 лет назад

I wish someone would adapt Against a dark background

@FadingVitals 2 месяца назад

Man, I love his books so much

@madfokkers 11 лет назад

I only heard about the cancer recently and looked up Raw Spirit his final interview as i'd missed it on tv but it has come as a real shock to discover he's actually died and i'm watching these programmes thinking he was still alive. I found i'd read a lot more of his books than i thought. Wasp Factory was my favourite and the first of his i read - RIP Iain

@CheeringupTV 11 лет назад

Wonderful writer and inspirational speaker

@brandonthesteele 9 месяцев назад

I liked that "humming at the TV" story, it illustrates the notion of conviction borne from simple subjectivity very well. Gotta remember that.

@I_dont_want_an_at 3 года назад

I haven't pictured his sci fi characters clearly. The shame I live under

@darthdrezz9237 24 дня назад

The day we lost iain, i had my most selfish thought ever... "Oh no! i will never read a new Culture novel"😭

@DJMavis 2 дня назад

It was a thought he shared if that's any consolation. When talking about his forthcoming demise and the release of the Quarry he lamented that he couldn't go out on a big space opera bang.

@ianedmonds9191 2 года назад

I miss Iain M Banks. His legacy and his ideas live on. Luv and Peace.

@benfel9403 3 года назад

Have to say, I also thought Complicity was fantastic TV. I am no critic, but as viewer, the reason I would not watch it again, was it was so well made, and so dark... Maybe too well made?

@benfel9403 3 года назад

I still think that TV adaption of The Crow Road was one of the best things on TV to this day. It was so involving and evoked so many emotions. Makes my back go cold just remembering it. Genuinely superb, obviously helped with such an epic cast. Loved the part with the cutting the jigsaw pieces to make them fit. Still laugh at that now.

@ianedmonds9191 2 года назад

He describes being in the zone so wonderfully. Lu and Peace.

@Kelly14UK 11 лет назад

Haven't really read any of his books... but I'm Scottish and 59 is WAY TOO YOUNG. Damn sorry for what I learned today. I liked his sense of humor in some of the pages I'd read.

@ironjoker101 11 лет назад

He announced he has inoperable cancer and has been given less than a year to live, but doctor's get that wrong more often than not. We'll see, but it's very sad. Such a talent.

@Canyoudigityesyoucan 11 лет назад

RIP Iain, I will be downloading your latest story. I have so far only read the Wasp Factory, but the gory bits put me off a bit!

@sorearm 3 года назад

RIP sadly missed, a giant of literature.

@ianedmonds9191 2 года назад

Legend. Sorely missed.

@Slechy_Lesh Год назад

23:15

@libre-tad6283 2 года назад

Culture & OU👌

@chrish12345 11 лет назад

I thought hes like a thin Richard Griffiths

@shinrarango 6 лет назад

just finished Consider Phlebas, my first venture into the culture books. which one should i read next??

@MintythecatIsABeast 6 лет назад

"The Player of Games" is an excellent next Iain Banks to read ;)

@christinekelley3620 6 лет назад

Player of Games is your safest bet. It's a better book, and just brilliant in its own right.

@davidmansfield6005 5 лет назад

I liked look to windward, but a really good Culture book (where they encounter earth!) is the novella State of the Art. But their all great. I've read Surface Detail 3 times.

@rebellion2054 3 года назад

Excession

@I_dont_want_an_at 3 года назад

hydrogen sonata

@eziosavva 12 лет назад

any chance to subtitle this English caption?

@patpowers9210 5 лет назад

I love Banks but trying to cut through that thick Scottish accent is just too hard. Any transcripts available?

@MichaelLaFrance1 2 года назад

Just click the "CC" button and read the captions.

@davidw9736 Год назад

@@MichaelLaFrance1 the captions seem to have a problem with the accent as well

@ReachCorporate 11 лет назад

Surface Detail was excellet

@محمدالصوفي-ط4ق 11 лет назад

I love lan bank

@ottobell6091 12 лет назад

It is good video

@fburton8 12 лет назад

Seconded!

@Valelacerte Год назад

Ian M Banks’ Marxist Post Modernist Feminist ideology is stamped all over his work. I have enjoyed his work, but his need to make female characters cunning and sexually liberated leaders, but men to be either stupid and submissive or damaged thugs becomes tedious. He was not a man who liked limits of any kind. Power and material were unlimited and lifespan, gender and species were unlimited.