Last year, I was shocked to read that Iain M. Banks announced that he had cancer and was going to die within months. I had first come across him when I picked up Consider [...]
In the long and storied history of the SF Signal Podcast, never had the powers-that-be deigned it safe to allow John H. Stevens, Fred Kiesche, and Jeff Patterson to appear on [...]
Sad news, folks. BBC News is reporting that Iain M. Banks has died of cancer. HE was 59 years old. Just 2 months ago, he announced he was diagnosed with terminal cancer and [...]
Amazon has the cover art and synopsis of the upcoming novel The Quarry by Iain Banks, hittng bookstore shelves on June 20, 2013. The author credit lacks the “science [...]
The sad news broke today that Iain M. Banks, author of the Culture space opera novels, has late stage gall bladder cancer. The prognosis is not good, and Ian thinks [...]
It’s been twenty five years since the release of the first Culture novel by Iain M. Banks. Today, over at the Kirkus Reviews Blog, I take a look at the series over the [...]
[Do you have an idea for a future Mind Meld? Let us know!] Iain M. Banks’ Consider Phlebas was published in 1987, the first book written of what would come to be known [...]
Upcoming4.me has posted the cover art and synopsis of the upcoming Culture novel by Iain M. Banks, The Hydrogen Sonata. Here’s the synopsis: It is, truly, provably, the [...]
…but not adapted from the story you might think… SlashFilm reports (via ScreenDaily) that an Iain M. Banks Culture story is headed for the big screen. That story [...]
Interviews & Profiles: Iain M. Banks is interviewed by Time, The Independent, and the Scotsman. Mad Hatter’s Bookshelf interviews Cherie Priest, author of [...]
Interviews: @Omnivoracious: Eoin Colfer (And Another Thing…). Time Magazine has video interview with Robert J. Sawyer: The Scientific Mind Behind FlashForward. [via [...]
Times Online is reporting that the new Iain M. Banks novel, Transition, is being serialized for free on iTunes as an abridged audio book: Iain Banks’s latest novel, [...]
Transition by Iain M. Banks gets a September 2009 simul-release in book & serialized podcast formats. Apex Publishing announces plans to publish An Occupation of Angels [...]