[TheForge] cryptonomocon YAK

[Rich Maynard]

>
>   Iain Banks- englishman who has written a series of books about a
> future society called the culture-
> Use of Weapons, or Excession, or The Player of Games-  but really
> anything he writes is all very good. Against a Dark Background is
> another amazing one of his.
>

Strictly speaking, the culture books are by Iain M Banks, the non-sci-fi
ones by Iain Banks. Same person, of course, but an easy way to tell his two
main oeuvres!

Rich M.