The best of Iain M. Banks

by M. Bijman

August 1, 2017

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Espedair Street by Iain Banks (Originally published: Macmillan Publishers, 1987)

The Steep Approach to Garbadale, by Iain Banks

The Quarry, by Iain Banks (Little, Brown, U.K., 2013, US edition April 2014)

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…)

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