RIP Iain Banks

[Phoenix Dark]

https://twitter.com/cstross/status/343740022924648448
fuck cancer :'(

Shout outs to White Man and Contra for introducing me to his work

[Madrun Badrun]

 

[helios]

Use of Weapons will forever be one of my favorite books..

RIP Banks

[nudemacusers]

never heard of this dude (don't shoot me!), but his culture series sounds pretty cool. I'll pick it up after I get through hyperion.

[chronovore]

Iain Banks has died.



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

Iain Banks dies of cancer aged 59
Iain Banks Iain Banks was best known for his novels The Wasp Factory, The Crow Road and Complicity
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Author Iain Banks has died aged 59, two months after announcing he had terminal cancer, his family has said.

The Scottish writer revealed in April he was suffering from terminal gall bladder cancer and was unlikely to live for more than a year.

He was best known for his novels The Wasp Factory, The Crow Road and Complicity.

In a statement, his publisher said he was "an irreplaceable part of the literary world".

[Am_I_Anonymous]

This is too bad. Great authors like Banks die damn near unknown while paint by number fucktards like Grissom and King still make money. Problematic.

Example (of my own)

Normal guy: I picked up a bat and hit him with it.

King: I grasped the bat, sighed, sweated out last nights drinking, swung like a pissed off willies mays, moves the wind, said goddamnit, then struck him in the brisk sweaty, mississippi afternoon monday

:-(

[chronovore]

My first IAB novel was Look to Windward. Its immersive world and story took me by surprise. Next, I picked up The Wasp Factory, because it was the only Iain Banks book in the shop. I'd assumed it would be SF, which was my first surprise, and then the madness of the narrator became my second introduction to Banks' mad genius.

Honestly, this is just such a loss, I feel like crying. What a horrible loss.