![]() ![]() Most of these speculative volumes concern the Culture, a utopian-anarchist society that extends across a sizable cluster of the universe. When not committing his considerable energies to such intense Bildungsromans as The Wasp Factory or bleak-humored narratives like The Crow Road, Banks inserts an M into “Iain Banks” and writes science fiction novels. ![]() ![]() Banks novel, you will find sour antiheroes sweet-talking corpulent cannibal kings, erratic robot drones so caught up in lending a helping hand that they overlook the telltale traces of emotional breakdown within those they serve, and a febrile zeal for blowing things up which suggests that Banks isn’t so much an author of bawdy and exciting adventures as he is a giddy eight-year-old with an elaborate train set scattered across a football field. The publication rights have reverted back to me. In 2008, I was commissioned to read all of Banks’s Culture novels, which had been reissued by Orbit in the United States, and I wrote the following essay for another outlet. This morning, the BBC reported that Iain Banks had passed away from cancer. Pamela Paul, The Gray Lady’s In-House Transphobe.An Angry Copy Editor on a Lonely Wednesday Night. ![]()
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