RIP Iain Banks

[tpbury]

Announced he had terminal cancer a couple of months ago and is now dead. I always sought out his new books and would have liked to have met him because his writing made him seem such an insightful and humane bloke.

[dingbattigger]

Great author, very sad. RIP

[Joensuu]

RIP Iain.

[LVSaint]

RIP. Remember reading the Wasp Factory years ago, couldn't put it down.

[Ken Tone]

An excellent author -- unusual in working in 2 genres under almost the same name, one as Iain Banks and one as Iain M. Banks. I recommend his books to everyone. His death at only 59 has robbed us of many more that he would have written.

 

I read 'Surface Detail' only a few weeks ago -- what an extraordinary imagination!

[SNOWY]

So talented. Wasp Factory is an incredible book. RIP Iain.

[RonManager]

Crow Road is on You Tube.

[Ziggy]

I read Wasp Factory one year when on a week's skiing holiday. A brilliant and memorable book. RIP.