Author

Books by Iain M. Banks

Iain M. Banks (1954–2013) was a Scottish novelist who published literary fiction as Iain Banks and science fiction as Iain M. Banks. His Culture series — ten novels set in a post-scarcity interstellar civilization governed by benevolent AIs — is among the most celebrated sequences in science fiction. Use of Weapons, third in the series, is often regarded as his masterpiece. His literary novels include The Wasp Factory, The Crow Road, and Complicity. He was known for political intelligence, structural invention, and a mordant wit. He announced his terminal cancer diagnosis publicly in 2013 and died the same year.