{"id":792843,"date":"2025-01-20T13:07:07","date_gmt":"2025-01-20T18:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=792843"},"modified":"2025-01-20T13:07:07","modified_gmt":"2025-01-20T18:07:07","slug":"rereading-the-best-science-fiction-writers-of-all-time-iain-m-banks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=792843","title":{"rendered":"Rereading the best science fiction writers of all time: Iain M. Banks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<figure class=\"ArticleImage\">\n<div class=\"Image__Wrapper\"><\/div><figcaption class=\"ArticleImageCaption\">\n<div class=\"ArticleImageCaption__CaptionWrapper\">\n<p class=\"ArticleImageCaption__Title\">Iain M. Banks wrote a succession of best-selling science fiction stories<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleImageCaption__Credit\">Joseph Branston\/SFX Magazine\/Future via Getty Images<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Culture series<\/strong><\/em><br \/><strong>Iain M. Banks (Orbit Books)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Iain M. Banks died more than 11 years ago, but remains a titan of modern science fiction. He wrote \u201cliterary\u201d works under the name Iain Banks, but added the \u201cM\u201d for his 14 sci-fi offerings, which are known for an audacious, ground-breaking take on the space opera that transformed the genre.<\/p>\n<p>If you have never read any of these books but love \u201chard\u201d sci-fi, is it worth diving in now?<\/p>\n<p>Short answer: yes. Longer answer:\u2026<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg26535264-000-rereading-the-best-science-fiction-writers-of-all-time-iain-m-banks\/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&#038;utm_source=NSNS&#038;utm_medium=RSS&#038;utm_content=space&#038;rand=772163\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iain M. Banks wrote a succession of best-selling science fiction stories Joseph Branston\/SFX Magazine\/Future via Getty Images The Culture seriesIain M. Banks (Orbit Books) Iain M. Banks died more than&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":792844,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-792843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-scientist"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=792843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792843\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/792844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=792843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=792843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=792843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}