LONDON (AP) - Scottish writer Iain Banks, who alternately wowed and disturbed readers with his dark jokes and narrative tricks, has died, his publisher said. He was 59. Banks, whose writing took ...

The New Scientist Book Club has been reading the late Iain M. Banks’s science fiction novel The Player of Games. Banks’s friend and fellow sci-fi author Ken MacLeod joined us to chat about the book ...

We asked New Scientist staff to pick their favourite science fiction books. Here are the results, ranging from 19th-century classics to modern day offerings, and from Octavia E. Butler to Iain M.

Iain M Banks published his debut novel The Wasp Factory in 1984. He went on to write 28 more novels, with his literary fiction published as Iain Banks and his science fiction under what he called "the ...