I must have read pretty much all Iain Banks... I cannot think of a more enjoyable writer...<i> Canal Dreams</i> would make a terrific move. It<b> is just as topical now as it was when it appeared, perhaps more so. There is a love story, along with terrorists and hostages, great locations - mostly in the great lake in the middle of the Panama Canal - and it was thrilling</b>
- Sam Neill, Guardian
<b>Extraordinary, brilliant, bloody</b>
Fay Weldon
<b>Currents of dark wit swirl through Banks' writing</b>, enriching its buoyancy... and, like Graham Greene, he can readily open the reader's senses to the 'foreignness' of places
Scotland on Sunday
<b>Short, compact and brilliantly crafted</b>
Scotsman
His technical facility with language now matches his instinct for storytelling, and the combination makes him <b>one of the best British novelists</b>
Guardian
What makes Banks a significant novelist is the love and effort that go into his works, and his acute sense of the ways in which people can suffer
Independent on Sunday
Banks is a phenomenon: the wildly successful, fearlessly creative author of brilliant and disturbing non-genre novels (<i>The Wasp Factory</i>, <i>Complicity</i>), he's equally at home writing pure science fiction (like <i>Feersum Endjinn</i>) of a peculiarly gnarly energy and elegance. I suspect we have actual laws against this sort of thing in the United States, but Iain Banks, with the "M" or without, is currently a legal import
William Gibson