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Science fiction is trying to find alternative ways of looking at realities.
Iain Banks
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Iain Banks
Age: 59 †
Born: 1954
Born: February 16
Died: 2013
Died: June 9
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Iain M. Banks
Iain Menzies Banks
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I enjoy it too much - even if I knew I'd never get a book published, I would still write. I enjoy the experience of getting thoughts and ideas and plots and characters organised into this narrative framework.
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Well, he sighed to no one in particular, and looked up into yet another alien sky. Here we are again.
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I'm from out of town, he said breezily. This was true. He'd never been within a hundred light-years of the place.
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