He did an interview in which he addressed the passport incident. He also belonged to a group in 2004 that campaigned, trying to have Tony Blair impeached as Prime Minister after the invasion of Iraq, sending his cut-up passport to 10 Downing Street in protest. The author also put his signature on a document that was making a call for the independence of Scotland. One of these is an argument about the fact that an abundant economy may make anarchy viable or inevitable, even though it is an experiment that likely never be tested. Just like Ken, there is an awareness of the left wing history in his writing. He had a friendship with writer Ken MacLeod, who specialized in social and technical science fiction. He had met his wife in London and in 1992, they got married in a ceremony held in Hawaii. He lived in Edinburgh before eventually moving to Fife. He resided in the southern area of England until he decided to move in 1988 to Scotland. He attended the University of Stirling and studied philosophy, psychology, and English literature.Īfter school, Banks decided that he would move to London. His father was an Admiralty officer and his mother ice skated professionally. series called Stonemouth came out based on his novel.īanks was born on Februin Fife, Scotland. Complicity became a film in 2000 and a t.v. The Crow Road was turned into a 1996 t.v. He used this as his pen name for science fiction and goes by Iain Banks for some of his books.
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