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Iain Banks

Geburtstag: 16. Februar 1954
Todesdatum: 9. Juni 2013

Iain Menzies Banks war ein britischer Schriftsteller.

Seine Romane veröffentlichte er unter dem Namen Iain Banks beziehungsweise, wenn es sich um Science-Fiction handelte, als Iain M. Banks. Die „New York Times“ nannte Banks den „bedeutendsten Science-Fiction-Autor der Gegenwart“; die britische „The Times“ setzte ihn im Jahr 2008 auf die Liste der „größten britischen Schriftsteller seit 1945.“

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„Blame Lewis.“The Crow Road
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„You need to read more science fiction. Nobody who reads science fiction comes out with this crap about the end of history“
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„Fuck every cause that ends in murder and children crying.“Against a Dark Background
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„Empathize with stupidity and you're halfway to thinking like an idiot“
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„The point is, there is no feasible excuse for what are, for what we have made of ourselves. We have chosen to put profits before people, money before morality, dividends before decency, fanaticism before fairness, and our own trivial comforts before the unspeakable agonies of others“Complicity
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„I just think people overvalue argument because they like to hear themselves talk.“Use of Weapons
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„Oh, they never lie. They dissemble, evade, prevaricate, confound, confuse, distract, obscure, subtly misrepresent and willfully misunderstand with what often appears to be a positively gleeful relish and are generally perfectly capable of contriving to give one an utterly unambiguous impression of their future course of action while in fact intending to do exactly the opposite, but they never lie. Perish the thought.“Look to Windward
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„It's a library, only the stupid or the evil are afraid of those“
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„All reality is a game. Physics at its most fundamental, the very fabric of our universe, results directly from the interaction of certain fairly simple rules, and chance; the same description may be applied to the best, most elefant and both intellectually and aesthetically satisfying games. By being unknowable, by resulting from events which, at the sub-atomic level, cannot be fully predicted, the future remains makkeable, and retains the possibility of change, the hope of coming to prevail; victory, to use an unfashionable word. In this, the future is a game; time is one of the rules. Generally, all the best mechanistic games - those which can be played in any sense "perfectly", such as a grid, Prallian scope, 'nkraytle, chess, Farnic dimensions - can be traced to civilisations lacking a realistic view of the universe (let alone the reality). They are also, I might add, invariably pre-machine-sentience societies.

The very first-rank games acknowledge the element of chance, even if they rightly restrict raw luck. To attempt to construct a game on any other lines, no matter how complicated and subtle the rules are, and regardless of the scale and differentiation of the playing volume and the variety of the powers and attibutes of the pieces, is inevitably to schackle oneself to a conspectus which is not merely socially but techno-philosophically lagging several ages behind our own. As a historical exercise it might have some value, As a work of the intellect, it's just a waste of time. If you want to make something old-fashioned, why not build a wooden sailing boat, or a steam engine? They're just as complicated and demanding as a mechanistic game, and you'll keep fit at the same time.“The Player of Games
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„One should never mistake pattern for meaning.“The Hydrogen Sonata
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„People were always sorry. Sorry they had done what they had done, sorry they were doing what they were doing, sorry they were going to do what they were going to do; but they still did whatever it is. The sorrow never stopped them; it just made them feel better. And so the sorrow never stopped.“Against a Dark Background
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„All our lives are symbols. Everything we do is part of a pattern we have at least some say in. The strong make their own patterns and influence other people's, the weak have their courses mapped out for them. The weak and the unlucky, and the stupid.“The Wasp Factory
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„People can be teachers and idiots; they can be philosophers and idiots; they can be politicians and idiots... in fact I think they have to be... a genius can be an idiot. The world is largely run for and by idiots; it is no great handicap in life and in certain areas is actually a distinct advantage and even a prerequisite for advancement.“The Crow Road
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„There has seldom if ever a shortage of eager young males prepared to kill and die to preserve the security, comfort and prejudices of their elders, and what you call heroism is just an expression of this simple fact; there is never a scarcity of idiots.“Use of Weapons
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„It was the day my grandmother exploded.“The Crow Road
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„Experience as well as common sense indicated that the most reliable method of avoiding self-extinction was not to equip oneself with the means to accomplish it in the first place.“Consider Phlebas

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