Honorary Associate: Iain Banks
Ian Banks is a best-selling novelist and science fiction writer. His mainstream novels include The Wasp Factory and Espedair Street, which was adapted for BBC radio in 1998. Much of his science fiction deals with a large pan-galactic civilisation, The Culture, which he describes as a sort of ‘secular heaven’. Iain Banks is also a committed atheist and has made a guest appearance, as an extra, in Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
“The Universe says simply, but with every possible complication, 'Existence' and it neither pressures us nor draws us out, except as we allow. It all boils down to nothing, and where we have the means and will to fix our reference within that flux, then there we are. Let me be part of that outrageous chaos... and I am.”
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