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Author: Paul Kincaid
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Imprint: University of Illinois Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 1.50cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.340kg
ISBN: 9780252082504
ISBN 10: 0252082508
Pages: 208
Publication Date: 12 May 2017
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Available To Order
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Reviews
A thorough, focused, and very useful study of the works of Iain Banks . . . with the M and without the M! --Gwyneth Jones, author of Life A warmly appreciative yet acutely critical survey, clear, concise, and well-judged. --Ken MacLeod, author of The Corporation Wars: Insurgence Paul Kincaid has done an admirable job with this book, presenting us with the first really comprehensive survey of Banks' work across all his literary modes. Insightful, detailed, fair-minded, as generous as it is bracingly honest, it's a work that demands the attention of anyone with a real interest in this much-beloved author. --Alastair Reynolds, author of Poseidon's Wake
BSFA Award for Best Non-Fiction, British Science Fiction Association, 2018 Finalist, Hugo Award for Best Related Work, 2018 Locus Recommended Reading List, 2017 Paul Kincaid has done an admirable job with this book, presenting us with the first really comprehensive survey of Banks' work across all his literary modes. Insightful, detailed, fair-minded, as generous as it is bracingly honest, it's a work that demands the attention of anyone with a real interest in this much-beloved author. --Alastair Reynolds, author of Poseidon's Wake A thorough, focused, and very useful study of the works of Iain Banks . . . with the M and without the M! --Gwyneth Jones, author of Life Kincaid's Iain M. Banks is a significant and authoritative addition to these books that is likely to become a benchmark for Banks studies in the years ahead. --Strange Horizons Kincaid remains a masterful practitioner of the lost art of finely calibrated literary criticism . . . Kincaid is, unsurprisingly, both meticulous and astute. --Science Fiction Studies A warmly appreciative yet acutely critical survey, clear, concise, and well-judged. --Ken MacLeod, author of The Corporation Wars: Insurgence Kincaid's short Ian M. Banks is admirable in the scope and depth of its explorations of Banks's many writerly projects. --Fafnir
A thorough, focused, and very useful study of the works of Iain Banks . . . with the M and without the M! --Gwyneth Jones, author of Life A warmly appreciative yet acutely critical survey, clear, concise, and well-judged. --Ken MacLeod, author of The Corporation Wars: Insurgence Paul Kincaid has done an admirable job with this book, presenting us with the first really comprehensive survey of Banks' work across all his literary modes. Insightful, detailed, fair-minded, as generous as it is bracingly honest, it's a work that demands the attention of anyone with a real interest in this much-beloved author. --Alastair Reynolds, author of Poseidon's Wake
A thorough, focused, and very useful study of the works of Iain Banks . . . with the M and without the M! --Gwyneth Jones, author of <i>Life</i> A warmly appreciative yet acutely critical survey, clear, concise, and well-judged. --Ken MacLeod, author of <i>The Corporation Wars: Insurgence</i>
Author Information
Paul Kincaid is a Clareson Award-winning critic and the author of What It Is We Do When We Read Science Fiction.
