{"id":1164,"date":"2007-02-24T10:56:55","date_gmt":"2007-02-24T10:56:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2007\/02\/24\/iain-m-banks-interviewed\/"},"modified":"2007-02-24T10:56:55","modified_gmt":"2007-02-24T10:56:55","slug":"iain-m-banks-interviewed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2007\/02\/24\/iain-m-banks-interviewed\/","title":{"rendered":"Iain (M.) Banks Interviewed"},"content":{"rendered":"

Speaking (as we were) of the glamourour life of writers, Bookslut points to<\/a> an interview with Iain Banks<\/a>. If you’re not familiar with Banks, he’s a prolific author who alternates “mainstream” literary novels (as “Iain Banks”) with genre SF novels (as “Iain M. Banks”). With a very few exceptions, his books are very smart, fairly bloody, and darkly comic.<\/p>\n

He apparently sells very well in the UK, but hasn’t really managed to crack the US market, to the point where his most recent SF novel (The Algebraist<\/cite>) is only available from a small press. It’s a shame, because he’s written some absolutely brilliant stuff– Use of Weapons<\/cite> and Look to Windward<\/cite> are spectacularly good SF.<\/p>\n

He has a mainstream novel coming out soon (The Steep Approach to Garbadale<\/cite>), so the interview mostly focusses on that. It also features some pretty sharp comments about the book, and his books in general, which is refreshingly unlike the soft-focus treatment inevitably given to interview subjects in the US. I’d say “Why Oh Why Can’t We Have a Better Press Corps?,” but then I’d have to send Brad DeLong a nickel…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Speaking (as we were) of the glamourour life of writers, Bookslut points to an interview with Iain Banks. If you’re not familiar with Banks, he’s a prolific author who alternates “mainstream” literary novels (as “Iain Banks”) with genre SF novels (as “Iain M. Banks”). With a very few exceptions, his books are very smart, fairly… Continue reading Iain (M.) Banks Interviewed<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-sf","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1164\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}