An Angry Tribute to Iain Banks

[sharplittlteeth]

We knew it was coming, but it still hit hard: Iain Banks has passed away. According to his wife, he died calmly and without pain.

I said everything I have to say about how important he was to me here, when he first announced he had cancer. But I'll reiterate: he wasn't just influential to me, he was definitional.

My condolences to his family and

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[sharplittlteeth]

A short list of other people's tributes to Iain Banks:

Neil Gaiman
Charles Stross
The Guardian obituary

Feel free to link me to more.

[kitling]

"Fuck every cause that ends in murder and children crying."

Amen to that!