Well this puts Jjong's nose into perspective

As you probably already know, Iain M. Banks has terminal cancer.

There are less than a handful of writers whose work I will automatically read. I devoured Hydrogen Sonata as soon as I could get my grubby paws on it. Now I know it's the last Culture novel. ;_;

(I sort of want to apologise to him for Walking to Babylon, pleading youth and ignorance.)