“I’ve asked my partner Adele if she will do me the honour of becoming my widow.” Iain’s dying. Fucking Fucking Fuck.
Tag Archives: Scotland
Reading: Iain Banks — The Business
Which I’ve also read at least four times, I think — as well as handed over to a couple of people about to cross two hemispheres at 11000 metres. Written a couple of years before Dead Air, it’s entirely a different thing, … Continue reading
Reading: Iain Banks — Dead Air
A momentary diversion through Iain Banks (his books that is, not his self) after finishing the delightful and thoroughly reconfirmed as my favourite science-fiction book, Feersum Endjinn, and so wondering which of his other books I haven’t read in the … Continue reading
Reading: Iain M. Banks — Feersum Endjinn
Ah! This is brilliant! What a colossal imagination! This is the book I measure all other science-fiction by, which I haven’t read for years, and in the intervening time have got through a couple of hundred works in that genre, … Continue reading
Reading: Hannu Rajaniemi — The Fractal Prince
A difficult thing to come directly after Iain M. Banks and The Hydrogen Sonata, but still, Hannu Rajaniemi’s continuation of The Quantum Thief, which I’ve read twice already, has been long-awaited by me. And it arrives in hardback! The cover is not as … Continue reading
Reading: Iain M. Banks — The Hydrogen Sonata
Oh Iain, I’ve already finished you! Yes, I did collect you from my favourite bookstore on Wednesday, so I’ve had a little time, and carefully kept myself away from devouring it in two days; actually, four nights for an Iain … Continue reading
Reading: A few for the nth time from the last some months
Two weeks or so to go until my (it seems now firmly) annual revision of whatever I’ve read since last mid-October, and having just finished Jo Walton’s Among Others, which is just wow, I’m filled with a kind of utterly … Continue reading
Reading: Charles Stross — The Apocalypse Codex
Or rather, read. Gobbled down in a little over a day. I got the US hardback version with the awful cover because I couldn’t wait for the UK one with the one which would match my well-read Fuller Memorandum (which two … Continue reading
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“Hi there, ‘The Apocalypse Codex’ by Stross has arrived and is ready to be picked up. Cheers, St George’s Bookshop” … that’s my wknd sorted
Reading: Iain Banks – Stonemouth
Iain Banks Iain Banks Iain Banks! I can stop right there. No more to say, it’s Iain Banks! The one without the sandwiched M! Iain Banks, author of the best first sentence in the history of writing. A sentence so … Continue reading