darenager wrote:I'm a bit of a cultural tumble weed, so Ian Banks - in a nutshell?He's a hard one to pigeon-hole.
Part gothic horror, sometimes political/social satire. And in his "Iain M Banks" guise, brilliant but (for me as a non-scifi fan) a little impenetrable sci-fi author.
And whisky aficionado. All-in-all, a legend
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