Iain Banks
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Iain Menzies Banks was a Scottish author, writing mainstream fiction as Iain Banks and science fiction as Iain M. Banks. His books have been adapted for theatre, radio, and television. In 2008, The Ti
Banks at the Edinburgh International Book Festival, 2009
Banks book signing at the 63rd World Science Fiction Convention in Glasgow, August 2005
Iain Banks in 2008
Banks posing with a fan in London, 2012
Consider Phlebas
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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
Iain Banks
…20th century in a 1997 poll; in 2016, it was ranked the second-best Scottish novel of all time in a BBC Scotland poll. His first science fiction book, Consider Phlebas (1987), marked the start of the Culture series, consisting of ten novels. In April 2013, Banks revealed he had inoperable cancer and was unlikely to…
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