Iain Banks has cancer

[Cobalt Greywalker]

I came upon this in a roundabout way, but it looks like the Culture author has inoperable gall blader cancer.

See http://friends.banksophilia.com/

[Bob Schroeck]

Well. That sucks.

As it always does to hear things like that.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.