Iain Banks Dies Aged 59

The author Iain Banks has died.  The creator of stories such as The Wasp Factory, Espedair Street, The Bridge and The Crow Road, Banks was equally adept at writing in the science fiction genre, publishing novels including Use of Weapons and Consider Phlebas, under the name Iain M. Banks (the M stood for Menzies). He died, aged 59, on 9 June 2013.  He announced his illness when he started on his last book The Quarry which contains a character dying of cancer.  He fully completed the book but did not live to see his book launched.  Scran has a Pathfinder Pack on the author which includes a short clip of him reading his novel Canal Dreams.