Europa SF is shocked to learn of the sad news concerning the great British writer Iain M. Banks. A website has been set up for friends and fans to leave messages for Mr. Banks.
http://www.sfx.co.uk/2013/04/03/a-personal-statement-from-ian-m-banks/
Author Iain Banks has announced on his website that he has just months to live after being diagnosed with bladder cancer. The 59-year-old announced the book he is currently working on, entitled The Quarry, is likely to be his last after cancer spread to his liver, pancreas and lymph nodes.
Banks is an award-winning writer and was named by The Times newspaper as one of the 50 greatest living authors in 2008.
Banks, who was born in Fife and studied at Stirling University, published his first novel The Wasp Factory in 1984.
His first science fiction novel, Consider Phlebas, was published in 1987 under the name Iain M. Banks.
He has continued to write mainstream fiction as Iain Banks, with novel The Crow Road adapted for TV in 1996, followed by Complicity in 2000.
Scotland’s First Minister Alex Salmond said: ‘This is terribly sad news. Iain Banks is a remarkable writer who has made a lasting contribution to Scottish literature and culture, inspiring and enthralling readers for 30 years.
A LIFE IN BOOKS FOR ‘ONE OF THE GREATEST 50 WRITERS SINCE 1945’
2012 Stonemouth
2010 Surface Detail
2009 Transition
2008 Matter
2007 The Steep Approach to Garbadale
2004 The Algebraist
2003 Raw Spirit: In Search of the Perfect Dram
2002 Dead Air
2000 Look to Windward
1999 The Business
1998 Inversions
1997 A Song of Stone
1996 Excession
1995 Whit, Little
1994 Feersum Endjinn
1993 Complicity
1993 Against a Dark Background
1992 The Crow Road
1990 The Use of Weapons
1989 The State of the Art
1989 Canal Dreams
1988 The Player of Games
1987 Espedair Street
1987 Consider Phlebas
1986 The Bridge
1985 Walking on Glass
1984 The Wasp Factory
