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Iain M Banks Has Cancer - Unlikely To Live More Than A Year

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Terranid Meester
Tactical Assault and Recon Unit
#1 - 2013-04-03 15:33:45 UTC
Shame I heard he was a decent science fiction author. I remember a PC Gamer review of EVE Online mentioning being able to live the Iain M Banks dream - BBC News
Graygor
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#2 - 2013-04-03 15:49:48 UTC
Sad news indeed. Sad Let's hope he outlives the prognosis or at least goes as painlessly / peacefully as possible.

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Krixtal Icefluxor
INLAND EMPIRE Galactic
#3 - 2013-04-03 15:54:57 UTC
Really sad.

I've only read a few of his short stories though.

Bad week for this as even Roger Ebert's cancer has returned..........

"He has mounted his hind-legs, and blown crass vapidities through the bowel of his neck."  - Ambrose Bierce on Oscar Wilde's Lecture in San Francisco 1882
Frank Millar
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#4 - 2013-04-03 15:56:22 UTC
I am shocked. Sad
silens vesica
Corsair Cartel
#5 - 2013-04-03 16:54:43 UTC
Very sad on a number of levels.
Much too young to be passing on.
A huge loss for the literary world. At not-yet 60, he'd have had his best writing years ahead of him.

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Rana Ash
Gradient
Electus Matari
#6 - 2013-04-03 17:18:00 UTC
Aww nooo, now whom will continue to fill my world with Culture books and awsome SciFi
Krixtal Icefluxor
INLAND EMPIRE Galactic
#7 - 2013-04-03 17:55:33 UTC
silens vesica wrote:

Much too young to be passing on.
At not-yet 60, he'd have had his best writing years ahead of him.


Can you believe Philip K. **** (censored, lol) was only 54 when he left us ??????????

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silens vesica
Corsair Cartel
#8 - 2013-04-03 18:43:14 UTC
Krixtal Icefluxor wrote:
silens vesica wrote:

Much too young to be passing on.
At not-yet 60, he'd have had his best writing years ahead of him.


Can you believe Philip K. **** (censored, lol) was only 54 when he left us ??????????

Messes with my head every time I remember that.
Who knows what wonders he might have given us, had he lived a more full life?

Nor is he the only one.

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Kirjava
Lothian Enterprises
#9 - 2013-04-03 22:10:06 UTC
I wonder if he ever planned to end the Culture series with a bang....

I never got around to finishing more than a few of his books, I feel a loss I will never know what the history of the Algabraeist was...

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Krixtal Icefluxor
INLAND EMPIRE Galactic
#10 - 2013-04-03 22:32:38 UTC  |  Edited by: Krixtal Icefluxor
silens vesica wrote:
Krixtal Icefluxor wrote:
silens vesica wrote:

Much too young to be passing on.
At not-yet 60, he'd have had his best writing years ahead of him.


Can you believe Philip K. **** (censored, lol) was only 54 when he left us ??????????

Messes with my head every time I remember that.
Who knows what wonders he might have given us, had he lived a more full life?

Nor is he the only one.



At least he got to see an unfinished work print of "Blade Runner".


edit: (Sorry, beyond those few short stories I'm not that versed in Iain. But this is a part of the genre's history, that's for sure.)

"He has mounted his hind-legs, and blown crass vapidities through the bowel of his neck."  - Ambrose Bierce on Oscar Wilde's Lecture in San Francisco 1882
Krixtal Icefluxor
INLAND EMPIRE Galactic
#11 - 2013-04-04 14:44:57 UTC  |  Edited by: Krixtal Icefluxor
(Irrelevant now that troll posts removed)

"He has mounted his hind-legs, and blown crass vapidities through the bowel of his neck."  - Ambrose Bierce on Oscar Wilde's Lecture in San Francisco 1882
ISD Suvetar
ISD Community Communications Liaisons
ISD Alliance
#12 - 2013-04-04 21:33:41 UTC
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