Iain Banks passed away earlier today (June 9), two months after announcing he had terminal cancer. Tributes have poured in for the acclaimed author of such novels as The Crow Road and The Wasp Factory ...

Iain Banks is probably best known in the United States for his 1984 debut novel, “The Wasp Factory,” but fans of science fiction love him for his Culture series (published under the name Iain M. Banks ...

LONDON (Reuters) - The final novel of Scottish author Iain Banks was released on Thursday to bittersweet acclaim 11 days after he died of the very disease around which the plot revolves. "The Quarry" ...

Iain Banks has died, aged 59. The Scottish author passed away two months after announcing he had terminal cancer. His publisher stated that Banks was "an irreplaceable part of the literary world". The ...

Iain M Banks published his debut novel The Wasp Factory in 1984. He went on to write 28 more novels, with his literary fiction published as Iain Banks and his science fiction under what he called "the ...

The New Scientist Book Club has been reading the late Iain M. Banks’s science fiction novel The Player of Games. Banks’s friend and fellow sci-fi author Ken MacLeod joined us to chat about the book ...

LONDON (AP) - Scottish writer Iain Banks, who alternately wowed and disturbed readers with his dark jokes and narrative tricks, has died, his publisher said. He was 59. Banks, whose writing took ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Iain Banks, the award-winning Scottish author, has died aged 59 from cancer two months after revealing that he was suffering from the disease, a friend said. Banks, whose books ...