Iain Banks dies of cancer aged 59 (author)

BBC News ^ | June 9, 2013

[EveningStar]

Author Iain Banks has died aged 59, two months after announcing he had terminal cancer, his family has said.

Banks, who was born in Dunfermline, Fife, revealed in April he had 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.

[EveningStar]

Obituary: Iain Banks

Iain Banks (16 February 1954 – 9 June 2013) was a Scottish author. He wrote mainstream fiction under the name Iain Banks, and science fiction as Iain M. Banks, including the initial of his adopted middle name Menzies.

Wikipedia

[EveningStar]

ping

[ClearCase_guy]

Good writer. Very heavy stuff. I found the Wasp Factory to be very disturbing. Pretty much a leftwing loon/anarchist, but still a talented writer.

RIP

[NormsRevenge]

RIP Iain

We could use more good authors.. and lawyers.

never read a work of his to my knowledge but hope he was a decent man.

[Tanniker Smith]

Another author to put on the “To Be Read” list, belatedly.

[Hardraade]

Drat! I’d hoped for a few more.

RIP

[Ole Okie]

He wrote mainstream fiction under the name Iain Banks, and science fiction as Iain M. Banks, including the initial of his adopted middle name Menzies.

Funny. I've known quite a few fellows whose middle initial was NMI.

[fieldmarshaldj]

RIP.

[Hardraade]

For a first book, it was amazing and dealing with how homosexuality is followed by other dysfunction. Today, the LGBT crowd would have crucified him.

Britain has a long and extremely fruitful tradition of leftwing writers putting up ideas much larger than their iedology. China Mieville, for a contemporary one.