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Iain M. Banks (1954–2013) was born #OTD, 16 Feb—a🎂🧵
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“Iain Banks… is a novelist who has his own ‘double’, an author for whom the idea of a split writing persona is emphatically not out of place”
—A 2010 article on Banks’s genre-busting career:
https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2010/11/reading-double-writing-double-the-fiction-of-iain-m-banks/
Reading Double, Writing Double: The Fiction of Iain (M.) Banks - The Bottle Imp
Iain Banks’ writing can be located within a context of contemporary British fiction, namely the period after 1970. The rationale for the provision of a context wider than Scottish fiction is determined by Banks who, as Thom Nairn explains, has ‘expressed doubts about the place he may or may not occupy in a specifically Scottish […]