Comments on: The Crow Road by Iain Banks http://oduinn.com/blog/2009/11/21/the-crow-road-by-iain-banks/ Fri, 27 Jan 2012 15:12:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Al Billings http://oduinn.com/blog/2009/11/21/the-crow-road-by-iain-banks/#comment-40506 Al Billings Wed, 25 Nov 2009 01:01:26 +0000 http://oduinn.com/2009/11/21/the-crow-road-by-iain-banks/#comment-40506 How can you not like his science fiction? What? Iain Banks is one of the most popular writers in the UK. If it is "Iain M. Banks" it is his science fiction (normally). If he leaves out the middle initial, it is his mainstream work. (There is an exception or two if you draw lines differently than he does.) How can you not like his science fiction? What?

Iain Banks is one of the most popular writers in the UK. If it is “Iain M. Banks” it is his science fiction (normally). If he leaves out the middle initial, it is his mainstream work. (There is an exception or two if you draw lines differently than he does.)

]]> By: Chris Cunningham http://oduinn.com/blog/2009/11/21/the-crow-road-by-iain-banks/#comment-40478 Chris Cunningham Tue, 24 Nov 2009 14:10:58 +0000 http://oduinn.com/2009/11/21/the-crow-road-by-iain-banks/#comment-40478 If only Banks could end books as well as he starts them. I gave up after the third of fourth I read that ended with a twist which was either so obvious as to be a complete anticlimax (The Business) or so contrived and incongruous as to be unbelievable (The Crow Road). Bizarrely enough, this is exactly the same reason for giving up reading Banks I later heard expressed by someone at 3am on the first series of Big Brother, ten years ago now. - Chris If only Banks could end books as well as he starts them. I gave up after the third of fourth I read that ended with a twist which was either so obvious as to be a complete anticlimax (The Business) or so contrived and incongruous as to be unbelievable (The Crow Road).

Bizarrely enough, this is exactly the same reason for giving up reading Banks I later heard expressed by someone at 3am on the first series of Big Brother, ten years ago now.

– Chris

]]> By: blufive http://oduinn.com/blog/2009/11/21/the-crow-road-by-iain-banks/#comment-40469 blufive Tue, 24 Nov 2009 09:25:54 +0000 http://oduinn.com/2009/11/21/the-crow-road-by-iain-banks/#comment-40469 Banks mostly separates his SF/Non SF books by the use of cunning Pseudonyms: Iain Banks (Non-SF) and Iain *M* Banks (SF). He mostly sticks to that, though I believe that there are occasional books that blur the boundary a bit. Banks mostly separates his SF/Non SF books by the use of cunning Pseudonyms: Iain Banks (Non-SF) and Iain *M* Banks (SF). He mostly sticks to that, though I believe that there are occasional books that blur the boundary a bit.

]]> By: Casey http://oduinn.com/blog/2009/11/21/the-crow-road-by-iain-banks/#comment-40432 Casey Mon, 23 Nov 2009 06:13:08 +0000 http://oduinn.com/2009/11/21/the-crow-road-by-iain-banks/#comment-40432 Look for the Iain Banks in the non-SF sections, and Iain M. Banks in the SF sections. He's sorta famous for his first novel, 'The Wasp Factory' Look for the Iain Banks in the non-SF sections, and Iain M. Banks in the SF sections.
He’s sorta famous for his first novel, ‘The Wasp Factory’

]]> By: Nick Thomas http://oduinn.com/blog/2009/11/21/the-crow-road-by-iain-banks/#comment-40422 Nick Thomas Sun, 22 Nov 2009 21:40:40 +0000 http://oduinn.com/2009/11/21/the-crow-road-by-iain-banks/#comment-40422 He uses "Iain Banks" for general fiction, and "Iain M. Banks" for the sci-fi. Did you try "Player of Games" ? He uses “Iain Banks” for general fiction, and “Iain M. Banks” for the sci-fi. Did you try “Player of Games” ?

]]> By: Boris http://oduinn.com/blog/2009/11/21/the-crow-road-by-iain-banks/#comment-40397 Boris Sun, 22 Nov 2009 05:59:14 +0000 http://oduinn.com/2009/11/21/the-crow-road-by-iain-banks/#comment-40397 For what it's worth, his science fiction is all authored as "Iain M. Banks" while his non-science fiction is authored as "Iain Banks". Just for ease of searching. ;) For what it’s worth, his science fiction is all authored as “Iain M. Banks” while his non-science fiction is authored as “Iain Banks”. Just for ease of searching. ;)

]]> By: Philip Chee http://oduinn.com/blog/2009/11/21/the-crow-road-by-iain-banks/#comment-40395 Philip Chee Sun, 22 Nov 2009 05:06:51 +0000 http://oduinn.com/2009/11/21/the-crow-road-by-iain-banks/#comment-40395 Well he writes skiffy under the pseudonym of "Ian M Banks" so most people don't know that the mainstream author "Ian Banks" is the same person. Phil Well he writes skiffy under the pseudonym of “Ian M Banks” so most people don’t know that the mainstream author “Ian Banks” is the same person.

Phil

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