Iain Banks's classic novel, reissued with a striking new cover
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.
Extraordinary, brilliant, bloody
*Fay Weldon*
Currents of dark wit swirl through Banks' writing, enriching its
buoyancy... and, like Graham Greene, he can readily open the
reader's senses to the 'foreignness' of places
*Scotland on Sunday*
Short, compact and brilliantly crafted
*Scotsman*
His technical facility with language now matches his instinct for
storytelling, and the combination makes him one of the best British
novelists
*Guardian*
What makes Banks a significant novelist is the love and effort that
go into his works, and his acute sense of the ways in which people
can suffer
*Independent on Sunday*
Banks is a phenomenon: the wildly successful, fearlessly creative
author of brilliant and disturbing non-genre novels (The Wasp
Factory, Complicity), he's equally at home writing pure science
fiction (like Feersum Endjinn) of a peculiarly gnarly energy and
elegance. I suspect we have actual laws against this sort of thing
in the United States, but Iain Banks, with the "M" or without, is
currently a legal import
*William Gibson*
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