The 1987 publication of Iain M. Banks's Consider Phlebas helped
trigger the British renaissance of radical hard science fiction and
influenced a generation of New Space Opera masters. The thirteen SF
novels that followed inspired an avid fandom and intense
intellectual engagement while Banks's mainstream books vaulted him
to the top of the Scottish literary scene. Paul Kincaid has written
the first study of Iain M. Banks to explore the confluence of his
SF and literary techniques and sensibilities. As Kincaid shows, the
two powerful aspects of Banks's work flowed into each other,
blurring a line that critics too often treat as clear-cut. Banks's
gift for black humor and a honed skepticism regarding politics and
religion found expression even as he orchestrated the vast,
galaxy-spanning vistas in his novels of the Culture. In examining
Banks's entire SF oeuvre, Kincaid unlocks the set of ideas Banks
drew upon, ideas that spoke to an unusually varied readership that
praised him as a visionary and reveled in the distinctive character
of his works. Entertaining and broad in scope, Iain M. Banks offers
new insights on one of the most admired figures in contemporary
science fiction.
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