The best of Iain M. Banks

The fictional and sci-fi worlds created by Iain Banks/Iain M. Banks are complex, vast, often complete with new languages, peoples, philosophies, and geographies. Reading Banks is not so much sitting down with a few pages, but days of concentrated immersion. Often you lose track of who is who, which ship with which weird name has done what, and which time it is – in the novel, and sometimes, in your life as well – while you struggle with the book. What you are left with are unanswered questions and images that pop into your head at the strangest times. (Continue reading…)