{"id":282,"date":"2011-06-05T15:07:03","date_gmt":"2011-06-05T14:07:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ianridley.org.uk\/?p=282"},"modified":"2011-06-05T15:07:03","modified_gmt":"2011-06-05T14:07:03","slug":"iain-m-banks-in-leicester","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ianridley.org.uk\/?p=282","title":{"rendered":"Iain M. Banks in Leicester"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_283\" style=\"width: 209px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-283\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-283\" title=\"Ian_m_banks108.JPG\" src=\"http:\/\/ianridley.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/121010ian-m-banks3-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"Iain M. Banks\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/ianridley.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/121010ian-m-banks3-199x300.jpg 199w, http:\/\/ianridley.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/121010ian-m-banks3.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-283\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Iain M. Banks<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I went to my first ever book signing on Friday. Iain M. Banks was at the Phoenix Square in Leicester as part of a mini-tour to launch the paperback of his novel <a href=\"&lt;a href=&quot;http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/gp\/product\/1841498955\/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=harborouglibd-21&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1634&amp;creative=6738&amp;creativeASIN=1841498955&quot;&gt;Surface Detail&lt;\/a&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.co.uk\/e\/ir?t=harborouglibd-21&amp;l=as2&amp;o=2&amp;a=1841498955&quot; width=&quot;1&quot; height=&quot;1&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; style=&quot;border:none !important; margin:0px !important;&quot; \/&gt;\"><strong><em>Surface Detail<\/em><\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It was great timinng for me as I&#8217;d finished the book a few days ago, just as a friend alerted me to the event on Facebook. I love most of Iain M. Banks&#8217; science fiction novels and keep meaning to read more of his non-science fiction work.<\/p>\n<p>The evening, organised by <a href=\"http:\/\/altfiction.co.uk\/\">alt.fiction<\/a> included a reading from the novel by Iain followed by a Q &amp; A session. He came across as a personable and engaging speaker and it was interesting to hear his responses to various questions about the Culture, science fiction and writing in general.<\/p>\n<p>You can listen to a <a href=\"http:\/\/hagelrat.blogspot.com\/2011\/06\/iain-m-banks-leicester-phoenix.html\">podcast<\/a> of the evening thanks to the nice people at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unboundblogzine.com\/\">Un:Bound<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-285\" title=\"surfacedetailtop\" src=\"http:\/\/ianridley.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/surfacedetailtop-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"Surface Detail\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"http:\/\/ianridley.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/surfacedetailtop-300x168.jpg 300w, http:\/\/ianridley.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/surfacedetailtop.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I went to my first ever book signing on Friday. Iain M. Banks was at the Phoenix Square in Leicester as part of a mini-tour to launch the paperback of his novel Surface Detail. It was great timinng for me as I&#8217;d finished the book a few days ago, just as a friend alerted me [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6dbnw-4y","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ianridley.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ianridley.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ianridley.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ianridley.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ianridley.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=282"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/ianridley.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":289,"href":"http:\/\/ianridley.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282\/revisions\/289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ianridley.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ianridley.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ianridley.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}