Iain Banks

Science fiction is trying to find alternative ways of looking at realities…

Torture is such a slippery slope as soon as you allow a society or any…

Technology determines the possibilities of society. It doesn’t matter whether you start out from a…

Science fiction has its own history, its own legacy of what’s been done, what’s been…

A lot of what the ‘Culture’ is about is a reaction to all the science…

I think a lot of people are frightened of technology and frightened of change, and…

In so much of politics you’re not allowed to disagree with what’s been agreed…

My point has always been that, ever since the Industrial Revolution, science fiction has been…