Follow TV Tropes

Following

History ReferencedBy / IainBanks

Go To

OR

Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None


* Canadian musician Music/{{Grimes}} named her songs "Idoru" and "Player of Games'' after Banks' novels. According to her, "Idoru" was originally titled "Adore You" until she ordered a copy of the book and saw that the dedication read "For Claire" (Grimes' first name).

to:

* Canadian musician Music/{{Grimes}} named her songs "Idoru" and song "Player of Games'' after Banks' novels. According to her, "Idoru" was originally titled "Adore You" until she ordered a copy of the book and saw that the dedication read "For Claire" (Grimes' first name).
novel.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None

Added DiffLines:

[[AC:Music]]
* Canadian musician Music/{{Grimes}} named her songs "Idoru" and "Player of Games'' after Banks' novels. According to her, "Idoru" was originally titled "Adore You" until she ordered a copy of the book and saw that the dedication read "For Claire" (Grimes' first name).
Mrph1 MOD

Changed: 190

Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None



to:

* Midway through ''ComicBook/HellstormPrinceOfLies'', after British writer Creator/WarrenEllis launched a new arc, a satanic nightclub in Los Angeles was abruptly renamed "The Wasp Factory".
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None

Added DiffLines:

[[AC:Comic Books]]
* In the final issue of the ''ComicBook/{{Grendel}}'' miniseries ''Devil's Odyssey'', the Consortium are a blatant CaptainErsatz of The Culture —- an AI-ruled Utopia with super-powered science and a tendency to whimsical starship names.
Mrph1 MOD

Changed: 63

Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None


* One of the bookshop scenes in season two of ''Series/GoodOmens2019'' has a character reading the first page of ''The Crow Road'', with a focus on its opening line, "It was the day my grandmother exploded".

to:

* One of the bookshop scenes in season two of ''Series/GoodOmens2019'' has a character reading the first page of ''The Crow Road'', with a focus on its opening line, "It was the day my grandmother exploded".
exploded". The Angel Muriel is seen reading the book later in the series.
Mrph1 MOD

Added: 228

Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None

Added DiffLines:

[[AC:Live-Action TV]]
* One of the bookshop scenes in season two of ''Series/GoodOmens2019'' has a character reading the first page of ''The Crow Road'', with a focus on its opening line, "It was the day my grandmother exploded".
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None


'''Roko:''' Yes yes a very distinguished lineage

to:

'''Roko:''' Yes yes a very distinguished lineagelineage
* Jeph's other project, ''Webcomic/AliceGrove'', is explicitly dedicated to Banks's memory.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None

Added DiffLines:

[[AC:Film -- Live Action]]
* In ''Film/HotFuzz'' there is a pair of identical twins, one of whom only reads Iain Banks novels and one of whom only reads Iain M. Banks novels.

[[AC:Literature]]
* The Franchise/DoctorWhoExpandedUniverse has a recurring highly-advanced civilization called The People, introduced in ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoNewAdventuresTheAlsoPeople The Also People]]'', who are heavily inspired by The Culture.
* Creator/KimNewman:
** The villain of the Literature/DiogenesClub story "You Don't Have to Be Mad..." is named after Iain M. Banks.
** Iain M. Banks himself (or an alternate-timeline version of him) has a brief cameo in one of the ''Literature/DarkFuture'' novels.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None

Added DiffLines:

[[AC:WebComics]]
* ''Webcomic/QuestionableContent'': The page note points out the reference to the Ian M. Banks on [[https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=4042 "A Rose By Any Other Name"]]
-->'''Yay:'''We certainly hope you're not laughing at our ''name''. [[BlatantLies We come from a long line of Newfriends]]. Our father, Hooray Newfriend. Our grandfather Huzzah Newfriend. Our great-grandfather, Hallelujah--\\
'''Roko:''' Yes yes a very distinguished lineage

Top