Iain M. Banks

Iain Banks was a Scottish author. He wrote mainstream fiction under the name Iain Banks and science fiction (including the popular [The Culture](https://openlibrary.org/subjects/series:imb_the_culture) series) as Iain M. Banks. In 2008, *The Times* named Banks in their list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945". *--Wikipedia*