chaosmachine Posted March 15, 2013 Share Posted March 15, 2013 I listened to most of the Culture books in audiobook form, they were all amazing. Banks makes the future seem more awesome than any other writer I've come across. If you haven't yet, listen to "Iain M. Banks - The State of the Art (BBC)"... Also, if you like sci-fi, check out this list I put together: http://blamcast.net/articles/best-science-fiction-books Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chaosmachine Posted March 15, 2013 Share Posted March 15, 2013 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kakapo Posted April 3, 2013 Share Posted April 3, 2013 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-22015175 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BCM Posted April 3, 2013 Share Posted April 3, 2013 Bastarding cancer. http://uk.news-republic.com/Web/ArticleWeb.aspx?regionid=4&articleid=7997331 FUCK :( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest isaki Posted April 3, 2013 Share Posted April 3, 2013 2012 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soloman Tump Posted April 3, 2013 Share Posted April 3, 2013 Shit Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psn Posted April 3, 2013 Share Posted April 3, 2013 Fucking hell. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pcock Posted April 3, 2013 Share Posted April 3, 2013 very sad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Eggylips Posted April 3, 2013 Share Posted April 3, 2013 :( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zazen Posted April 4, 2013 Share Posted April 4, 2013 : (See #toiain hashtag on Twitter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Iain C Posted April 5, 2013 Share Posted April 5, 2013 Very sad news - that rarest of things, a brilliant sci fi author. What I've read of his 'literary' work was great too. Plus, he provides an essential counterweight to Iain Duncan Smith in the "Iains in public life" stakes. Today I read that he even fought fascists on the street in the Battle of Lewisham in 1977. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
azatoth Posted April 5, 2013 Share Posted April 5, 2013 Well, that is rather shit news. It's always the good ones. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaffa Posted June 9, 2013 Share Posted June 9, 2013 R.I.P You will be sorely missed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest jasondonervan Posted June 9, 2013 Share Posted June 9, 2013 R.I.P You will be sorely missed. Well, that is rather shit news. It's always the good ones. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atop Posted June 9, 2013 Share Posted June 9, 2013 RIP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psn Posted June 9, 2013 Share Posted June 9, 2013 A great loss. RIP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Eggylips Posted June 9, 2013 Share Posted June 9, 2013 Bought 'Matter' today, got to page 29 and heard the bastrurd news, actually cried a wiped tear in the sunshine, the... the fukin pub, the cheeky cunt shyyin away to mortality. just had a scotch on the rocks to toast the lil wizard of imagination amalgamation... "I luv the ded, this old basturt sez to me when I wiz trying to get some innfurmashin out ov him. You fukin old pervirt I sez, gettin a bit fed up by this time enyway, an slit his throate; ah asked you whare the fukin Sleeping Byootie woz, no whit kind of humpin you lyke. No, no he sez, splutterin sumthin awfy and gettin blyd all ovir ma new curiearse, no he sez I sed Isle of theDead; Isle of the Dead thats whare yool find the Sleeping Beauty, but mind and watch out for the - then the basturt went and dyed on me. Fukin nerv, eh? Ah wiz dead upset but thare you go these things are scent to trie uz. " Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest chunky Posted June 10, 2013 Share Posted June 10, 2013 Feersum Endjinn is relatively unpopular I think, due to the phonetic spelling used by one character for the duration of every chapter from his point of view - extract: Woak up. Got dresd. Had brekfast. Spoke wif Ergates thi ant who sed itz juss been wurk wurk wurk 4 u lately master Bascule, Y dont u ½ a holiday? & I agreed & that woz how we decided we otter go 2 c Mr Zoliparia in thi I-ball ov thi gargoyle Rosbrith. I fot Id bettir clear it wif thi relevint oforities furst & hens avoyd any truble (like happind thi lastime) so I went 2 c mentor Scalopin. Certinly yung Bascule, he sez, i do beleave this is a day ov relativly lite dooties 4 u u may take it off. ½ u made yoor mattins calls? O yes, I sed, which woznt stricktly tru, in fact which woz pretti strikly untru, trufe btold, but I cude always do them while we woz travelin. Wots in that thare box yoor holdin? he asks. Itz a ant, I sez, waven thi box @ his face. O this is yoor litil frend, is it? i herd u had a pet. May i see him? Iss not a pet, iss a frend; u woz rite thi furst time, & iss not a im iss a she. Luke. O yes very pretti, he sez, which is a pretti strainge thing 2 say about a ant if u ask me but thare u go. Duz it - duz she ½ a naim? he asks. Yes, I sez, sheez calld Ergates. Ergateez, he sez, thatz a nyce name whot maid u call her that? Nuffink, I sez; itz her reel name. A I see, he sez, & givs me 1 ov thoze lukes. & she can tok 2, I tel him, tho I doan xpect yule b able 2 here hir. (Shh, Bascule! goze Ergates, & I go a bit red.) Duz she, duz she now? mentor Scalopin sez wif wunna them tolerint smylez. Very wel then he sez, pattin me on thi hed (which I doan much like, frangly, but sum times u jus ½ 2 pool up wif these things. N-way whare wer we? O yes he woz pattin me on thi hed & sayin), off yugo (he sez) but b bak by supper. Ritey-ho, I sez, all breezy like, nevir thinkin. i really love it though, and the story itself is pretty fucking mindblowing. not read transitions no...plan to! Deleterboy wrote a famous novel? Whoa dude. Thought he'd given up on that funny writing style. Heh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest RadarJammer Posted June 10, 2013 Share Posted June 10, 2013 damn it! he was supposed to survive the release of his new book, what a cruel fate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BCM Posted June 10, 2013 Share Posted June 10, 2013 RIP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chaosmachine Posted June 11, 2013 Share Posted June 11, 2013 damnit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pcock Posted June 11, 2013 Share Posted June 11, 2013 sad news. i hope his final book he wrote as he was dying is good. stonemouth was his first book ive ever thought was abit unimaginative and shite. one of my favourite authors for sure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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