Iain (M.) Banks has Sublimed. One of the smaller regrets of my life is that I never met this man. You should look up his final interview with BBC. Such grace in the face of the imminent end; I can only hope to die twice as late and half as well. He leaves behind a solid legacy of books that have and will influence readers and writers alike for ( Read more... )

Black Man won the Arthur C. Clarke Award. Since this has recuscitated some online interest in putting this fine book to the question, I will link to my Unreview which I think was pretty goddamn insightful if I do say so myself.

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Reread The Player of Games by Iain M. Banks for the first time since 1992. I like to think ( Read more... )

Ray Bradbury says you morons all got his book wrong. Fahrenheit-451 is not about what all you college professors, graduate students and reviewers thought it was. IN YOUR FACE, college professors, graduate students and reviewers!

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Now that's what I call Green.

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Best of all, Iain (M.) Banks undergoes some ( Read more... )

Finally, a new Culture novel on the horizon.

This is listed on Amazon with the ISBN 1841494178 for the hardback and 1841494186 for the export paperback, with a publication date of 1st February 2008.

As TMH mentioned on the Garbadale tour it has a number of possibly titles: Matter, The Expeditionary, and The Integrity of Objects. I thought the ( Read more... )