Matches in DBpedia 2015-10 for { ?s ?p "The works of Scottish author Iain Banks (16 February 1954 – 9 June 2013) include many novels, two short story collections, and one non-fiction book, as well as several introductions to the works of other authors. His fiction is typically grouped into science fiction (SF) and non-SF; for the former he is credited as Iain M. Banks, including the initial of his adopted middle name Menzies. In spite of this, the distinction is blurred for several works that mix elements of fantasy and realism; for instance, his 2009 novel Transition was published in the UK as Iain Banks, but in the US as Iain M. Banks. His fiction spans multiple genres, including the Gothic, crime and Bildungsroman; his works are sometimes stylistically experimental, and often contain dark humour and political sub-texts.Bank's literary career began with the publication of The Wasp Factory in 1984, which is arguably still the work he is best known for. His first sci-fi work is Consider Phlebas, published in 1987, which also marked the beginning of the Culture series; these works concern a post-scarcity semi-anarchist utopia known as The Culture. The Culture series eventually consisted of nine novels and the short story collection The State of the Art, the last entry being The Hydrogen Sonata published in 2012. Banks' final work is the non-SF novel The Quarry, was published posthumously in late June 2013."@en }
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- Iain_Banks_bibliography abstract "The works of Scottish author Iain Banks (16 February 1954 – 9 June 2013) include many novels, two short story collections, and one non-fiction book, as well as several introductions to the works of other authors. His fiction is typically grouped into science fiction (SF) and non-SF; for the former he is credited as Iain M. Banks, including the initial of his adopted middle name Menzies. In spite of this, the distinction is blurred for several works that mix elements of fantasy and realism; for instance, his 2009 novel Transition was published in the UK as Iain Banks, but in the US as Iain M. Banks. His fiction spans multiple genres, including the Gothic, crime and Bildungsroman; his works are sometimes stylistically experimental, and often contain dark humour and political sub-texts.Bank's literary career began with the publication of The Wasp Factory in 1984, which is arguably still the work he is best known for. His first sci-fi work is Consider Phlebas, published in 1987, which also marked the beginning of the Culture series; these works concern a post-scarcity semi-anarchist utopia known as The Culture. The Culture series eventually consisted of nine novels and the short story collection The State of the Art, the last entry being The Hydrogen Sonata published in 2012. Banks' final work is the non-SF novel The Quarry, was published posthumously in late June 2013.".