Re: So, What Games Are You Looking Forward To? (2025 Ed)

Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> looked up from reading the
entrails of the porn spammer to utter  "The Augury is good, the signs
say:

On Sun, 26 Jan 2025 21:03:51 +0000, JAB <noway@nochance.com> wrote:
>

I did recently read Look To Windward and although I enjoyed it I'm
probably not going to revisit the series anytime soon. It's a shame
really as I like my sci-fi and I've read several of his contemporary
fiction novels which he writes under Iain Banks instead of Iain M.
Banks. Not really hiding anything there.

>
Well, no worry; he's not writing anything under any name anymore.
Banks died in 2013.
>
The addition of the "M." in his name for his contemporary fiction
novels was largely at the insistence of his publisher, to avoid
confusion with another author. When he started writing sci-fi, they
suggested adding it in to make those novels distinct from his other
works. Or so the story goes.

Actually not so.
He wrote both science fiction, where he's used the M. middle initial and
non fiction ( like the Wasp Factory) where he wrote non science fiction
and non fiction with no M.

(You do not want to read that book, trust me.)

Xocyll
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