Banks
Banks
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMusician
Date of Birth15 June 1988
CountryUnited States of America
men littles doe
You like music, Mr. Gurgeh?" Hamin asked, leaning over to the man. Gurgeh nodded. "Well, a little does no harm.
stars distance fighting
That was how divorced from the human scale modern warfare had become. You could smash and destroy from unthinkable distances, obliterate planets from beyond their own system and provoke stars into novae from light-years off...and still have no good idea why you were really fighting.
reading animal smell
Smell is a very animal thing, almost reptilian, where the more cerebral things like reading less so.
falling-in-love character female
Most mainstream male fiction is littered with heroines, and female characters are basically so great, you want to fall in love with them.
lonely children only-child
I'm an only child so am happy with my own company and I don't really get lonely.
thinking people want
I think we need politicians; we need people who want to serve.
writing thinking stories
I just come up with the stories and write them as well as I can. There's not really a great deal of strokey-beard thinking going on.
book self air
Dead Air' is full of rants; it's a rant-based book. Yes, it's self-indulgence. I plead guilty; mea culpa.
reading culture fiction
A lot of what the 'Culture' is about is a reaction to all the science fiction I was reading in my very early teens.
machines arguing consciousness
I still find it hard to understand that anyone could argue that you can't have machines that exhibit consciousness.
fun writing effort
There is a quite a lot of effort involved but I find action sequences some of the quickest to write and the most fun.
player years gentleman
Even in my side of the world, I've been in publishing for what, 25 or 26 years, and it's gone from being a gentlemen's club to being a few big players, and it's very corporatised.
fun writing people
Half the fun of writing a novel is finding out from other people later on what you actually meant.
voice remuneration approach
Something in your voice tells me we approach the question of remuneration.