About the Author

Iain Banks came to widespread and controversial public notice with the publication of his first novel, THE WASP FACTORY, in 1984. He has since gained enormous popular and critical acclaim for both his mainstream and his science fiction novels.

Reviews

'Dazzlingly original' Daily Mail, 'An exquisitely riotous tour de force of the imagination which writes its own rules simply for the pleasure of breaking them' Time Out, 'Banks is a phenomenon: the wildly successful, fearlessly creative author of brilliant and disturbing non-genre novels, he's equally at home writing pure science fiction of a peculiarly gnarly energy and elegance' William Gibson, 'Sharp, witty, comprehensively terrifying' Observer