Iain Banks video interview on CNN.com

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Iain Banks recently talked to an interviewer from CNN - during the Lincoln Book Festival by the looks of things - about a wide range of topics and subject areas, including the appeal of science fiction, his sf-nal influences, the social impact of post-scarcity economics in The Culture (and whether he's like to live there) as well as his vision for the future of humanity, including the one Culture-based gift he'd give the human race, if he could...

Iain Banks CNN interview

Don't know Iain Banks? Find and read The Wasp Factory, immediately. His science fiction is pretty good, too.