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If this goes badly and I make a crater, I want it named after me!

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Iain Banks
Age: 59 †
Born: 1954
Born: February 16
Died: 2013
Died: June 9
Author
Novelist
Philosopher
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Iain M. Banks
Iain Menzies Banks
Badly
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Crater
Craters
Named

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Intellectual achievement. The exercise of skill. Human feeling.
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You're a wicked man. Thank you. It's taken years of diligent practice.
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