RIP Iain Banks

ambassadormolari

Apologies if this isn't Trek-related, but seeing as we're all sci-fi buffs here, I thought it was relevant. I just came across this bit of news here:


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-22835047

This saddens me. I am currently midway through Matter, and based on what other people were saying about it, have been wanting to read Consider Phlebas. I had already known Banks was terminally ill, but even so, this is a pretty sad headline to come across.

At least he has left behind an impressive body of work for people to remember him by.

jovianus

Man, I remember when he announced the cancer and that he probably had less than a year, but I was hoping he'd pull through somehow.

The Culture books are some of my top favorite sci-fi novels ever, it's really sad that he's passed on.

smokeybacon90

Best sci fi I have ever read. Devastated he's gone. I hope humanity pull together to make his Culture a reality. He deserves a torpedo funeral but I don't know if he was a Trekkie.

sosolidshoe

Oh bugger, I hadn't even read about his illness, this is such a bloody shame. I've been reading his books since I was wee, a new Culture novel was always something to look forward to and I'd always hoped that, someday, he'd get the chance to see his work on screen as well as in print - he was a great bloke as well, one of the few authors I've met who didn't seem to have to pretend he enjoyed meeting fans.