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Originally Posted by orlok
Hear hear! It would be a fitting tribute to a wonderful author who died so unexpectedly this year. I have never been as much of a fan of his sci-fi as I have of his mainstream novels, but I'd be more than happy to give this a go.
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Banks said that he would really like to "go out" with a science fiction novel. It did happen that way--in a sense--because while
The Quarry is the last book he completed in time for publication--
The Hydrogen Sonata was the last book he actually lived to see published and launched.
A final note about this remarkable writer:
"In recent months, the astronomer José Luis Galache at the Minor Planet Center put forth a request that an asteroid be named after Iain M. Banks. Sadly, it was too late for Iain to hear of it, but on the 23rd of June this was approved by the International Astronomical Union."