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The Wasp Factory is a mechanism invented by Frank, consisting of a huge clock face, salvaged from the local dump, encased in a glass box. Behind each of the 12 numerals is a trap that leads to a different ritual death (such as burning, crushing, or drowning in Frank's urine) for the wasp that Frank puts into it via the hole at the centre.
Iain Banks (16 February 1954 – 9 June 2013) was a Scottish author, writing mainstream fiction as Iain Banks and science fiction as Iain M. Banks, adding the initial of his adopted middle name Menzies (/ ˈmɪŋɪz / ⓘ). After the success of The Wasp Factory (1984), he began to write full time. His first science fiction book, Consider ...
ISBN. 0-333-45430-8. OCLC. 15197422. Followed by. The Player of Games. Consider Phlebas, first published in 1987, is a space opera novel by Scottish writer Iain M. Banks. It is the first in a series of novels about an interstellar post-scarcity society called the Culture. The novel revolves around the Idiran–Culture War, and Banks plays on ...
This Bildungsroman is set in the fictional Argyll town of Gallanach, the real village of Lochgair, and in Glasgow, where the adult Prentice McHoan lives. Prentice's uncle Rory disappeared eight years previously while writing a book called The Crow Road. Prentice becomes obsessed with papers his uncle left behind and sets out to solve the mystery.
0-333-44916-9. OCLC. 16089335. Espedair Street is a novel by Scottish writer Iain Banks, published in 1987.
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Some copies of the Wasp Factory even carried quotation from extremely negative reviews which criticised it as being vile and disgusting. Iain Banks himself requested they be put on the cover because he believed they would help increase sales (listen to the Guardian Book Club podcast that I added to the External Links).
Edward Digby Baltzell Jr. (November 14, 1915 – August 17, 1996) was an American sociologist, academic and author. [1][2][3] He studied the White Anglo-Saxon Protestant establishment and is credited with popularizing the acronym WASP. [2] He was also a best-selling author whose books were popular with both scholars and the general public.