One on One Iain Banks: the revival of science fiction inspiration
Scottish writer Iain Banks is a prolific novelist of conventional novels and science fiction. Since his first novel, “The Wasp Factory” was published in 1984, he has penned around a dozen conventional novels. Under the pen name Iain M Banks he has published around half that number of science fiction books. Many of these feature a utopian civilization of the future called “The Culture.” Away from the writing, Mr. Banks takes a public political stand on many issues, for example he tore up his passport and mailed it to the prime minister in protest against the war in Iraq. Radio Prague met up with Iain Banks who is in the city for the Prague Writers’ Festival and asked him to explain what his latest book, “Transition,” is about.
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