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Topic: Iain Banks has terminal cancer. (Read 6088 times)
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apocrypha
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Iain Banks has been diagnosed with gall bladder cancer and is "extremely unlikely" to live beyond a year. This is very sad, he's only 61. Great writer, great character, great politics. I sincerely hope he and his loved ones find a way to make the coming months as little of a nightmare for them as possible.
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"Bourgeois society stands at the crossroads, either transition to socialism or regression into barbarism" - Rosa Luxemburg, 1915.
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Morat20
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Well, that just...sucks.
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RhyssaFireheart
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Boo. That's got to be rough, especially finding out like that with basically no symptoms until it's too late.
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tar
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Damn. Lot of respect for the man, both as an author and in general.
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Khaldun
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Just saw this as well. Terrible news.
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Signe
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Muse.
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My Sig Image: hath rid itself of this mortal coil.
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Surlyboi
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eat a bag of dicks
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Meh. The world will lose an amazing writer sooner than it should.
Get your bits checked, people.
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Tuned in, immediately get to watch cringey Ubisoft talking head offering her deepest sympathies to the families impacted by the Orlando shooting while flanked by a man in a giraffe suit and some sort of "horrifically garish neon costumes through the ages" exhibit or something. We need to stop this fucking planet right now and sort some shit out. -Kail
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Abagadro
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That blows. Same age and circumstances as my dad (oh hey, here's some stage 4 metastatic cancer, too bad for you!).
Fuck cancer.
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"As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.”
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Bzalthek
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"Use the Soy Sauce, Luke!" WHOM, ZASH, CLISH CLASH! "Umeboshi Kenobi!! NOOO!!!"
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Man, I just finished his culture stuff, too. That was some superb shit. This really blows.
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"Pity hurricanes aren't actually caused by gays; I would take a shot in the mouth right now if it meant wiping out these chucklefucks." ~WayAbvPar
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Venkman
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Yea this is a real shame, I feel bad for him, especially as it sounds like he didn't have a lot of notice.
Halfway through his Culture books. Really love them.
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Tale
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sıɥʇ ǝʞıן sʞןɐʇ
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Can't have too many regrets. He has really lived. And written so much! As Iain Banks and Iain M Banks. Complicity and The Crow Road are insanely good non-scifi books of his.
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« Last Edit: April 03, 2013, 08:28:53 PM by Tale »
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Lantyssa
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I freaked for a second until I realized it was spelled 'wrong'. Still sucks though. :( Fuck cancer.
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Hahahaha! I'm really good at this!
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K9
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Fuck cancer, seriously.
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I love the smell of facepalm in the morning
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Shannow
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in the ass, with a baseball bat.
I actually didn't know who this was, wikied it and then realised I'd actually read one of his culture books.
heh.
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MahrinSkel
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He probably had more effect on me than any other author except maybe RAH. I'm not going to go into detail, make it seem I think this is more of a tragedy for me than him and his family. I just want to make it clear that I believe we're all losing something important.
--Dave
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Soln
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Sad news indeed. One of the few authors I bother re-reading.
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Morat20
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He probably had more effect on me than any other author except maybe RAH. I'm not going to go into detail, make it seem I think this is more of a tragedy for me than him and his family. I just want to make it clear that I believe we're all losing something important.
--Dave
I think every time we lose an artist -- any artist -- is particularly tragic. We never have enough of those. :( |
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tgr
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Just another victim of cyber age discrimination.
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Well, this sucks.
And Soln said exactly what I was thinking, he's one of the few authors whose books I've read more than once.
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Cyno's lit, bridge is up, but one pilot won't be jumping home.
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apocrypha
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Planes? Shit, I'm terrified to get in my car now!
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Iain Banks dies of cancer aged 59. That didn't take long, less than 2 months after he announced he had gall bladder cancer :( His last book, The Quarry, is about cancer and will be released in a couple of weeks. Glad he managed to finish that, very sad that he's dead so young.
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"Bourgeois society stands at the crossroads, either transition to socialism or regression into barbarism" - Rosa Luxemburg, 1915.
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Arthur_Parker
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Korachia
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:( Damn shame.
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Surlyboi
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eat a bag of dicks
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 Rest in peace, you magnificent bastard.
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Tuned in, immediately get to watch cringey Ubisoft talking head offering her deepest sympathies to the families impacted by the Orlando shooting while flanked by a man in a giraffe suit and some sort of "horrifically garish neon costumes through the ages" exhibit or something. We need to stop this fucking planet right now and sort some shit out. -Kail
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Quinton
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is saving up his raid points for a fancy board title
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Goddamn. What a loss. |
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Soln
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the opportunity for evil is just delicious
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Very sad. Last update seemed somehow a bit positive. A loss.
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schad
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Scotch for dinner tonight. The good stuff too. |
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