Title: The Wasp Factory Title Record # 887
Author: Iain M. Banks
Date: 1984-02-00
Type: NOVEL [non-genre]
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Language: English
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Year Title 1984 The Wasp Factory [as by Iain Banks]

Year Language Title 1984ⓘTranslated by Pierre Arnaud. French Le seigneur des guêpes [as by Iain Banks] 1985ⓘTranslated by Hugo Kuipers Dutch De Wespenfabriek [as by Iain Banks] 1985ⓘTranslated by Pierre Arnaud. French Le seigneur des guêpes 1986ⓘTranslated by Juhani Koskinen Finnish Ampiaistehdas [as by Iain Banks] 1991ⓘTranslated by Irene Bonhorst The 2011 translation is based upon this and was expanded and revised by Karin Kaltenbrunner and Thomas Ballhausen. German Die Wespenfabrik [as by Iain Banks] 1997ⓘTranslated by Robert Vernooy Dutch De Wespenfabriek [as by Iain Banks] 1999ⓘTranslated by Cristóbal Pera Román. Spanish La fábrica de las avispas [as by Iain Banks]

Awards

Place	Year and Award	Category
Win (as Die Wespenfabrik)	1992 Kurd Lasswitz Prize	Bester ausländischer SF-Roman
Nomination	1995 Tiptree / Otherwise	Retrospective

Publications

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Reviews

• Review by Chris Morgan (1985) in Fantasy Review, June 1985
• Review by Neil Gaiman (1985) in Imagine, August 1985
• Review by Malcolm Edwards (1988) in Horror: 100 Best Books, (1988) , reprinted in:
•     Horror: 100 Best Books (1988)
•     Horror: 100 Best Books (1992)
•     Horror: The 100 Best Books (1998)
• Review [Spanish] by Xavier Riesco Riquelme (2002) in Valis, 13, otoño 2002/invierno 2003