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Sci-fi author Iain Banks theorised that if aliens exist, the wealthiest among them would be travelling to Earth as tourists to watch a solar eclipse as he urged spectators to look out for them

(0) Short scroll today because I need to hit the road. Am driving up to my brother’s for a birthday party – mine! Toot your party horn, or leave your own news links in comments…. (1) LACEY LEAVES CANSMOFS. Diane Lacey has announced her resignation from CanSmofs on Facebook. CanSmofs is a Canadian sf convention

(0) Short scroll today because I need to hit the road. Am driving up to my brother’s for a birthday party – mine! Toot your party horn, or leave your own news links in comments…. (1) LACEY LEAVES CANSMOFS. Diane Lacey has announced her resignation from CanSmofs on Facebook. CanSmofs is a Canadian sf convention

A look at the dazzling legacy of Iain Banks, with M and without.

We head back to Venus once more for the conclusion of The House Of Styx with The House Of Saints. We sat down with author Derek Künsken.

[Editor’s Note: Gareth Powell is a British SF writer who has written three series, to wit the Ack-Ack Macaque series with airships and cigar-smoking-monkey fighter pilots, and the Embers of War with ships akin to those in Iain M. Banks’ Culture series. Powell’s latest series is The Continuance in which all of humanity has been exiled from Earth and is wandering the

He catapulted to fame with depraved, funny novel The Wasp Factory in 1984, but the much-loved Scottish writer had a parallel career as an influential sci-fi writer

Iain M. Banks' Consider Phlebas, the first book in the seminal Culture series gets a new illustrated edition courtesy of The Folio Society

BEST-SELLING crime author JD Kirk, whose real name is Barry Hutchison, speaks to The Sunday National about the ten things which have changed his…

The billionaire says he’s ‘a utopian anarchist of the kind described by Iain M Banks’ – but what of Banks’s socialist and anti-wealth views?