I found this to be a very fascinating and thorough assessment of those books and the themes within them and the links between them and of Banks's writing in general. In fact, I liked it so much that I went on to buy another similar book, also by Paul Kincaid, but this time focused on Brian Aldiss.
Iain M. Banks (2017)
Paul Kincaid has written the first study of Iain M. Banks to explore the confluence of his SF and literay tecnhiques and sensibilities. The two powerful aspect's of Banks' work flowed into each other, blurring a line that critics too often treat as clear-cut.
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I have read three previous titles from this line the ones on Octavia Butler lois mcmaster bujold and E&M banks and i thought that all three of them were incredible basically you know favorite authors of mine that I'm really interested in and the works themselves were just written so well
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