Iain M Banks

[silmälasi]

my favourite sci-fi author has to be the brilliant ian m banks. his culture novels have made sci-fi interesting again. plus i have to mention dan simmons`s fabulous hyperion cantos for their sheer intertextual complexity.

[johnnyrod]

I have to list Banks' Against a Dark Background as one of my all-time favourites. I'm also a big fan of his contemporary stuff like The Bridge, but the last few I read suggest he's running out of steam, getting more hung up on scale than the believable, gusty human stuff he used to write, where you could really slot yourself in. Like Consider Phlebas, classic space opera stuff. He's good, don't get me wrong.