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 Iain M Banks (born on 16 February 1945) is a Scottish science fiction and fiction writer who was in 2008 hailed one of Britain’s 50 greatest writers since 1945 by The Times.
Banks has written numerous books in the SF genre including Against a Dark Background, The Algebraist and Feersum Endjinn.
He also wrote several Culture novels (involving a fictional interstellar anarchic, socialist and utopian society) including titles such as Consider Phlebas, Use of Weapons, Look to Windward and most recently, Surface Detail, written in 2010.
When Banks writes mainstream fiction he omits the initial M from his name (marking his adopted middle name Menzies).
When Banks was born his parents intended to give him the middle name Menzies, however, his father made a mistake with the registration and he was officially registered as Iain Banks.
Despite this he continued to use the name, but was asked by his editor when publishing The Wasp Factory (his first fiction novel) to drop the initial as it appeared “too fussy” and may also have led to confusion with Rosie M. Banks, a minor romantic novelist.
He attended the University of Sterling where he studied English, philosophy and psychology, thereafter moving to London, England until 1988.
Banks’s writings often show an awareness of the history of left-wing politics.
In 2004 he was a member of a group of British politicians and media figures campaigning to have PM Tony Blair impeached after the 2003 Iraq invasion. [edit]
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