Date:  2 Jun 89 09:03:21 PDT (Friday)
Subject: Author Lists: Iain Banks
From: jwenn@world.std.com (John Wenn)
To: SF-LOVERS%rutgers:EDU
Edited: 9-May-95

Ian Banks writes under 2 names, Iain Banks for his SF and Iain M. Banks
for his mainstream works.  Since, however, I'm a lumper not a splitter
I classify something as SF if it has *some* SF elements.  So three Iain
M. Banks books are classified here as SF: _The Wasp Factory_ _Walking
on Glass_ & _The Bridge_.

I've only read his "Culture" universe books, and they are some of the
best, most literate space opera I've ever read.  They do, however, tend
to be downbeat.  Highly recommended if it sounds at all interesting to
you.

Banks, Iain (Menzies)	(U.K., 2/16/1954- )

Series
	[Same Universe]
		Consider Phlebas (1987)
		The Player of Games (1988)
		Use of Weapons (1990)

Against a Dark Background (1993)
The Bridge (1986)
"Cleaning Up" (1987) [CB]
Feersum Endjinn (1994)
The State of the Art (Ziesing, 1989)
The State of the Art (1991) [C] [inc. "The State of the Art"]
Walking On Glass (1985)
The Wasp Factory (1984)

Non-Genre Fiction
Canal Dreams (1989)
Complicity (1993)
The Crow Road (1992)
Espedair Street (1987)

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