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Not said often enough, but Banks is the equivalent of Vonnegut in so many respects - and in some he was better.

I interviewed Banks in 2008, for our little SF mag - my first interview, and I was starstruck. He was wonderfully warm and generous. We discovered we'd both been listening extensively to Warren Zevon in the previous week - a brilliant artist, gone too soon, as IMB noted. Banks too, too soon after.

The Wasp factory. OMG😲 What a talent. Debute book too! Blackest humour.

Completely accurate irony. Also applies to the many Canadian provincial governments in charge of declining public healthcare, for over a decade. #abpol #onpol #skpol #cdnpol

What a ferocious intelligence. What an author. Gone far too soon.

Wise words

The sublime(d) Iain. Loved him and his books. The world is a much poorer place for the loss of his clarity of thought and his humanity.

'Much missed' disnae cover it.

I reckon if he was alive today he'd be birlin' in his grave, so to speak. Imagine the list of targets he'd take aim at with his metaphoric shotgun. Where does his sense of anger reside these days in the pantheon of the literati?

Fuck I miss him.

When the people who have everything tell us that the people who have nothing are who keep us from having anything, if you believe them, then it's bias confirmation of your bigotry.

When you put it like that it sounds like a ridiculous position! (Because it is.)

God we miss him.

a very good egg.

Raw Spirit amused, had to pick it up when i was in Scotland