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Association for Scottish Literature
@asls.org.uk

“I mean, your society’s broken… Should we blame the rich, powerful people who caused it? No let’s blame the people with no power & no money & these immigrants who don’t even have the vote, yeah it must be their fucking fault.” —Iain Banks died #OTD, 9 June, 2013 www.theguardian.com/books/2013/j...

theguardian.comIain Banks: the final interviewIain Banks died last Sunday, just before the publication of his final novel The Quarry. Last month he talked to Stuart Kelly about writing, politics and all the things still left to do . . .
A. Stefansky
@astefansky.bsky.social

Godsdamnit. Now I need to go back and reread his everything. I first came across Banks picking up The Player of Games as a goofy kid backpacking in England after high school. His scifi is immense, mind warping in scale. His fiction bleak and brutal like a Scottish winter storm.