This Day in Blogging History: Iain Banks doesn't write sf for the money; T-Minus: graphic history of the space race; Yummy lo-carbcicadas

One year ago today Iain Banks doesn't write sf for the money: I think a lot of people have assumed that the SF was the trashy but high-selling stuff I had to churn out in order to keep a roof over my head while I wrote the important, serious, non-genre literary novels.