“Apparently I am what is known as an Unreliable Narrator, though of course if you believe everything you're told you deserve whatever you get.”

— Iain Banks , book Transition

First sentence of the novel
Source: Non-Culture Novels, Transition (2009)

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Scottish writer 1954–2013

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