Iain Banks video interview on CNN.com

During his recent appearance at the Lincoln Book Festival, Iain Banks talked to CNN’s Linnie Rawlinson 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…

You can check out the video version (in two parts) over on the CNN website, or if you don’t have a broadband connection handy right now, you can read the text version of the interview instead.