Civilization and other games

Tom Gatti profiles Iain Banks at the Times Online. God, I love that guy's books, not the science fiction ones so much but the others are pretty much exactly to my taste (you know when you read novels by someone and you just feel that their brain is working on the same wavelengths as your own? there are tons of novelists I love but don't feel that about, it's the exception rather than the rule): I would totally pre-order The Steep Approach to Garbadale from Amazon UK if I didn't already have so many heaps of unread books sitting around awaiting my attention...