GSV Officially Very Poorly: a thank you note to Iain Banks.

Apr 04, 2013 20:33

Iain Banks has cancer.

Late stage gall bladder cancer. To quote his statement: "I’m expected to live for ‘several months’ and it’s extremely unlikely I’ll live beyond a year."

I drifted away from reading Banks's work the last few years. But that news was a punch in the guts.

He's one of the authors who, along with Neil Gaiman and Joss Whedon, helped ( Read more... )

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kitling April 5 2013, 01:23:01 UTC
Was there a British TV version of the Wasp Factory? Or was that Crow Road...

I am sure I remember something.

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sharplittlteeth April 5 2013, 01:34:28 UTC
There was a Crow Road miniseries, and a movie of Complicity, neither of which I have seen.

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