By: Tim Hall

Tim Hall — Tue, 11 Jun 2013 18:59:16 +0000

I can’t think of any other author who had a foot in both camps in quite the same way as Iain Banks, who was as well regarded in both fields.

I’m not well-versed enough with the literary scene to know quite how high his standing was in the genre was, but I do know he was one of the giants of SF, possibly the most significant British author of his generation.

By: Serdar

Serdar — Tue, 11 Jun 2013 12:58:43 +0000

And depending on which eulogies you read, it’s either one half or the other. He was either a literary author who had an embarrassingly prolific side career in SF, or an SF author who kept frittering away with that literary stuff no one ever actually reads. (Both nonsense, of course.)

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