Iain M Banks
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Christ, I've not heard of any of those, bar Slaughterhouse 5 - you trump my geek many times over, old boy!
After living in the area for 5 years, I finally ventured in to a drab little sci-fi and fantasy second hand bookshop on Holloway Road (originally to buy an old Harry Potter to gut and turn into a secret compartment book for my wee cousin..) and I'm an instant convert - the shopkeep's a doddering old geezer who clearly has an utter disdain for all the trappings and pretensions of modern life - I get the impression he's had his head buried in tales of the fantastic for at least 40 years. He seems to know EVERYTHING about sci-fi - and you can tell what he thinks about all the authors by the way his face wrinkles and scrunches when you ask him about stuff - the stuff he;s supposed to be trying to sell to you.
I must admit, I'm tempted to follow in his lead - I've had my fun, seen and done a lot - maybe I should spend the rest of my life living in someone else's future? Sometimes, that doesn't seem like such a bad thing.