The Wasp Factory: Ian Banks

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Author Iain M. Banks: 'Humanity's future is blister-free calluses!' ". CNN. 6 January 2009 . Retrieved 3 April 2013. Frank is a narcissist, but he’s honest about it: “At least I admit that it’s all to boost my ego, restore my pride and give me pleasure, not to save the country or uphold justice or honour the dead.” He is also superstitious in the manner of an athlete or a soldier who believes certain ritual behaviors are necessary for success, even survival. He is exceptionally self-aware of his physical and mental states. An initially undisclosed handicap inhibits friendships, except with others equivalently deformed. In America, with the right weapons, Frank would certainly have wiped out half his high school class. this is some hard stuff, and by "hard" i mean Hard Like the Marquis de Sade Is Hard. do not read this if you cannot stomach depictions of animal torture. do not read this if you cannot stomach the murder of children. this one was hard for me to read at times, and i read some pretty terrible things. Empire Games, the seventh book in The Merchant Princes series by Charles Stross published in 2017, is dedicated "For Iain M. Banks, who painted a picture of a better way." [65]

I was never registered. I have no birth certificate, no National Insurance number, nothing to say I'm alive or have ever existed. While he worked he was writing. In the late 1970s he completed three science fiction novels that failed to find publishers, though all three would later be reworked and published successfully. Then followed one of the more remarkable literary debuts.Upcoming4.me. "Iain Banks – The Quarry cover art, release date and synopsis reveal". Upcoming4.me. Archived from the original on 7 May 2013 . Retrieved 30 April 2013.

Includes three short works set in the Culture universe. It also includes works of fiction more characteristic of Banks's writing published as Iain Banks. A radio version of the title story was transmitted by Radio 4 in 2009. [86] The Wasp Factory is a difficult read. Piecing together the truths –if there are any- from Frank’s narrative are nearly impossible. The only thing that remains clear is Frank’s hatred for women and the sea. The story is less about Frank’s relationship with Eric and more about Frank’s relationship with himself. In the end, Frank’s revelation and the author’s point is somewhat diluted by Frank’s own mental instability. Is any of this real? Science Fiction: A lament – then Optimism and the Next Generation / First: Sad News". 10 June 2013. I cannot believe reason two happened....really I can't and in some ways makes me want to give the book 2 stars but I think reprisals against people only distantly or circumstantially connected with those who have done others wrong are to make the people doing the avenging feel good. Like the death penalty, you want it because it makes you feel better, not because it's a deterrent or any nonsense like that.

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In addition to Paul, Frank has murdered two other children. He killed his cousin Blyth, as revenge, after Blyth set Frank and Eric’s pet rabbits on fire. Frank also killed his cousin Esmerelda, not out of any particular dislike for her, but because he felt he had killed too many male children, and felt it essential to help restore balance to the world by killing a girl. The Wasp Factory follows Frank Cauldhame, a teenager living with his father. Frank is not a normal child. By Frank’s own admission, he has killed three other children. Frank consoles himself that this was just a phase and has taken to divining the future with a contraption he has named “the wasp factory.” Frank also explores the possibility of telepathy utilizing the skull of a long deceased canine companion and warding off threats to his person utilizing “sacrifice poles.” Yes. True! I doubt we would see a father trying to change the gender of his child, though, and a murderer who proudly announces three completed murders before reaching adolescence, - using bombs, snakes and kites to kill off even younger children in the family - explaining it "with hindsight" at age seventeen as a "phase" he went through because of some very odd Freudian sexual issues and stereotypical misogyny!" Well that’s to be understood, his mother Agnès had left him shortly after he was born; his brother Eric’s mother, Mary, had bled to death in childbirth because his head was too large. Eric suffered from migraine for most of his life, and Frank used to think that the size of his head was the reason he went crazy. An update regarding THE CULTURE: NOTES AND DRAWINGS by Iain M. Banks and Ken MacLeod". Orbit Books. 15 June 2021 . Retrieved 5 May 2023.



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