Iain M. Banks 2/16/1954 – 6/9/2013
According to a post at the Daily Minor Planet website Iain Banks now has an asteroid named after him. I’m sure he would be very pleased.
The official citation for the asteroid reads:
Iain M. Banks (1954-2013) was a Scottish writer best known for the Culture series of science fiction novels; he also wrote fiction as Iain Banks. An evangelical atheist and lover of whisky, he scorned social media and enjoyed writing music. He was an extra in Monty Python & The Holy Grail.
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