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Sci-Fi Author Iain M. Banks Gets Asteroid Named after Him

by hafichuk on 8/19/13, 4:09 AM with 22 comments

• by Bishizel on 8/19/13, 5:08 AM

  This guy deserves it. The Culture series is a fantastic work, I wish he could have finished it (he stated last year that he figured around 3 or 4 more books would cap the series). And, while I loved the Culture series, his other sci-fi was often as good, or better.

  If you love sci-fi, and for some reason you haven't heard of this guy, do yourself a favor and read a couple of his books.

• by Uchikoma on 8/19/13, 7:55 AM

  Could have been a ship name :-)

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_spacecraft_in_the_Cultu...

  "No One Knows What The Dead Think", Fast Picket, Culture

• by arc_of_descent on 8/19/13, 3:10 PM

  I first heard about Iain M. Banks here on Hacker News. I've now read Use of Weapons, Player of Games and Consider Phlebas. Now currently reading Excession. This guy's writing is incredible. Lovely poetry with a crazy wild imagination.

  Player of Games will be one of my all time favorite books for a long time. I can't wait enough to forget all of it so that I can go back and read it once more. I love you Flere-Imsaho!

• by jacquesm on 8/19/13, 10:04 AM

  I received use of weapons as a birthday present some years ago and have been hooked ever since. Having an asteroid named after him is a super cool move. Maybe one day we'll see actual spaceships named after the ships in his books.

• by JulianMorrison on 8/19/13, 12:15 PM

  Should have got himself frozen at Alcor. Hmph.