Iain M. Banks
Iain Menzies Banks (officially Iain Banks, 1954-2013) was a Scottish writer. Iain Banks read English literature, philosophy and psychology at Stirling University. He moved to London and lived in the south of England until 1988 when he returned to Fife.
Banks sprang to public notice with the publication of his first novel, The Wasp Factory, in 1984. Since then, Banks has gained great popular and critical acclaim. The Times has acclaimed Iain Banks ”the most imaginative British novelist of his generation”. As Iain M. Banks he writes science fiction and as Iain Banks he writes literary fiction. Much of Banks's science fiction deals with a vast interstellar civilisation, the Culture.
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Series by Iain M. Banks
The Culture (11 books)
Speculative Fiction Books
Transition
2009 | science fiction
The Algebraist
2004 | science fiction, space opera
Feersum Endjinn
1994 | science fiction
Against a Dark Background
1993 | science fiction, space opera
The Bridge
1986 | fantasy, mainstream
Walking on Glass
1985 | science fiction, mainstream
The Wasp Factory
1984 | horror, mainstream