The New Scientist Book Club has been reading the late Iain M. Banks’s science fiction novel The Player of Games. Banks’s friend and fellow sci-fi author Ken MacLeod joined us to chat about the book and about his late friend. MacLeod, an award-winning writer in his own right, spoke about everything from how the pair met as teenagers at school to Banks’s influences, and even his idea for a final novel set in the universe of the Culture.
Watch the full interview: https://www.newscientist.com/video/2509124-author-ken-macleod-on-the-life-and-work-of-the-late-iain-m-banks/
