Editing Iain Banks (section)

==Personal life==
Banks met his first wife Annie in London before the 1984 release of his first book.<ref name="Jeffries2007"/> They lived in [[Faversham]] in the south of England, then split up in 1988. Banks returned to [[Edinburgh]] and dated another woman for two years. Iain and Annie were reconciled a year later and they moved to Fife.<ref name="Raw Spirit"/> They were married in Hawaii in 1992,<ref name="Jeffries2007"/> but in 2005, after 15 years of marriage, they separated.<ref name="novel factory"/>

In 1998 Banks was in a near-fatal accident when his car rolled off the road.<ref name="business"/> In February 2007, Banks sold his extensive car collection, including a 3.2-litre [[Porsche Boxster]], a [[Porsche 911|Porsche 911 Turbo]], a 3.8-litre [[Jaguar Mark II]], a 5-litre [[BMW M5]] and a daily-use diesel [[Land Rover Defender]], whose power he had boosted by about 50 per cent. All these Banks exchanged for a [[Lexus RX 400h]] hybrid – later replaced by a diesel [[Toyota Yaris]], and said in future he would fly only in emergencies.<ref name="Jeffries2007" /><ref name="Bye-bye Porsches"/>

[[File:Mr Iain M Banks accepting a T shirt conferring the title Acting Honorary Non-Executive Figurehead President Elect pro tem (trainee) of the ScienceFictionBookClub.org - October 2012.jpg|thumb|right|upright|Piccadilly, London, 2012]]

In April 2012 Banks became the "Acting Honorary Non-Executive Figurehead President Elect pro tem (trainee)" of the Science Fiction Book Club based in London. The title was his creation and on 3 October 2012 Banks accepted a T-shirt inscribed with it.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.sciencefictionbookclub.org |title=Iain M. Banks became President of Science Fiction Book Club, London England |publisher=Web |author=Gerard Earley |date=3 October 2012 |location=London}}</ref>

From 2006 Banks lived in [[North Queensferry]] on the north side of the [[Firth of Forth]], with his girlfriend Adele Hartley, an author and founder of the [[Dead by Dawn (film festival)|Dead by Dawn]] film festival.<ref name="Jeffries2007"/> She and Banks met in 1990,<ref name="Jeffries2007"/> and married on 29 March 2013<ref name="scotsman">{{Cite news |title=Iain Banks marries in his favourite place |url=http://www.scotsman.com/lifestyle/books/features/iain-banks-marries-in-his-favourite-place-1-2882190 |access-date=10 May 2013 |newspaper=The Scotsman |date=8 April 2013 |author=Stephen McGinty|agency=Johnston Publishing Ltd |quote=The couple's wedding certificate shows that Banks, 59, of North Queensferry, married 42-year-old Miss Hartley at the five-star hotel [Inverlochy Castle Hotel, The Highlands], in a short humanist ceremony on Good Friday.}}</ref> after he asked her to "do me the honour of becoming my widow."<ref name="personal statement"/><ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/apr/04/iain-banks-marriage-debate |title=In one sentence, Iain Banks speaks volumes about marriage |newspaper=The Guardian |author=Andrew Brown |date=4 April 2013 |access-date=9 June 2013}}</ref>

===Illness and death===
On 3 April 2013, Banks announced on his website and on one set up by him and some friends that he had been diagnosed with [[terminal illness|terminal]] [[gallbladder cancer]] and was unlikely to live beyond a year.<ref name="personal statement"/> He stated he would be withdrawing from all public engagements and that ''[[The Quarry (Iain Banks novel)|The Quarry]]'' would be his last novel.<ref name="terminal cancer"/><ref name="Months To Live"/> The dates of publication of ''The Quarry'' were brought forward at Banks's request,<ref name="BBC-death">{{Cite web |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-22835047 |title=Iain Banks dies of cancer aged 59 |publisher=BBC News |date=9 June 2013 |access-date=9 June 2013}}</ref> to 20 June 2013 in the UK<ref name="quarry">{{Cite web |url=http://upcoming4.me/news/book-news/iain-banks-the-quarry-cover-art-release-date-and-synopsis-reveal |title=Iain Banks – The Quarry cover art, release date and synopsis reveal |publisher=Upcoming4.me |access-date=30 April 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130507031134/http://upcoming4.me/news/book-news/iain-banks-the-quarry-cover-art-release-date-and-synopsis-reveal |archive-date=7 May 2013}}</ref> and 25 June 2013 in the US<ref name="jboog">{{Cite web |title=Ian Banks to publish 'The Quarry' in June |url=http://www.mediabistro.com/galleycat/iain-banks-to-publish-the-quarry-in-june_b69907 |work=GalleyCat |publisher=MediaBistro |access-date=10 May 2013 |author=Jason Boog |date=6 May 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131221014515/http://www.mediabistro.com/galleycat/iain-banks-to-publish-the-quarry-in-june_b69907 |archive-date=21 December 2013 |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="ldeutsch">{{Cite news |title=Book Buzz: New Iain Banks coming in June |url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/books/2013/05/07/book-buzz/2141051/ |newspaper=USA TODAY |access-date=10 May 2013 |author=Lindsay Deutsch |date=7 May 2013}}</ref> and Canada.<ref name="hachette">{{Cite book |url=https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/iain-m-banks/the-quarry/9780316281843/ |title=The Quarry by Iain M. Banks |publisher=Hachette Book Group  |date=27 June 2017 |isbn=9780316281843 |access-date=18 May 2020}}</ref> He died on 9 June 2013.<ref name="BBC death"/>

===Remembrance and tribute===
Banks's publisher called him "an irreplaceable part of the literary world". This was reaffirmed by a fellow Scottish author and friend since secondary school [[Ken MacLeod]]: his death "left a large gap in the Scottish literary scene as well as the wider English-speaking world."<ref name="BBC death"/> British author [[Charles Stross]] wrote, "One of the giants of 20th and 21st century Scottish literature has left the building."<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2013/06/fuck-every-cause-that-ends-in-.html |title='Fuck every cause that ends in murder and children crying' – Iain Banks, 1954–2013 – Charlie's Diary |publisher=Antipope.org |access-date=10 June 2013}}</ref> Authors, including [[Neil Gaiman]], [[Ian Rankin]], [[Alastair Reynolds]] and [[David Brin]] also paid tribute in blogs and elsewhere.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://journal.neilgaiman.com/2013/06/iain-banks-with-or-without-m.html |last=Gaiman |first=Neil |website=Neil Gaiman's Journal |title=Iain Banks. With or without the M |date=5 November 2011 |access-date=10 June 2013}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Reynolds |first=Alistair |url=http://approachingpavonis.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/iain-banks-1954-2013.html |website=Approaching Pavonis Mons by Balloon |title=Iain Banks 1954–2013|date=9 June 2013}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-22838993 |publisher=BBC News |title=Iain Banks: Tributes paid to author |date=10 June 2013 |access-date=17 June 2013}}; quotes from Ian Rankin, Val MacDermid, and Neil Gaiman</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Brin |first=David |url=http://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2013/06/science-fiction-lament-then-optimism.html |title=Science Fiction: A lament – then Optimism and the Next Generation / First: Sad News |website=Contrary Brin|date=10 June 2013 |access-date=2 December 2023}}</ref>

The asteroid [[5099 Iainbanks]] was named after him shortly after his death.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://minorplanetcenter.net/blog/sci-fi-author-iain-m-banks-gets-asteroid-named-after-him/ |title=Sci-Fi Author Iain M. Banks Gets Asteroid Named after Him |work=[[Minor Planet Center]] |access-date=8 December 2015}}</ref> On 23 January 2015, [[SpaceX]]'s CEO [[Elon Musk]] named two of the firm's [[autonomous spaceport drone ship]]s ''Just Read The Instructions'' and ''Of Course I Still Love You'', after ships in Banks's novel ''The Player of Games''.<ref>{{Cite news |url=http://www.dailydot.com/geek/elon-musk-drone-iain-m-banks/ |title=Elon Musk's new drone ships pay tribute to a revered sci-fi author |last=Baker-Whitelaw |first=Gavia |date=24 January 2015 |access-date=8 December 2015}}</ref> Another, ''A Shortfall of Gravitas'', began construction in 2018. This refers to the ship ''Experiencing A Significant Gravitas Shortfall'', first mentioned in ''Look to Windward''.<ref name=ft20180212>{{Cite news |last1=Kelly |first1=Emre |title=Elon Musk: New SpaceX drone ship, A Shortfall of Gravitas, coming to East Coast |url=https://www.floridatoday.com/story/tech/science/space/2018/02/12/elon-musk-new-spacex-drone-ship-coming-east-coast-port-canaveral/330356002/ |access-date=13 February 2018 |work=Florida Today |date=12 February 2018 |language=en}}</ref>

''The Red Virgin and the Vision of Utopia'', the 2016 graphic biography of [[Louise Michel]] by [[Mary M. Talbot]] and [[Bryan Talbot]], is "Dedicated to the memory of Iain (M) Banks, friend and sorely missed creator of socialist utopias."<ref>{{Cite book |last=Talbot |first=Mary M. |author2=Bryan Talbot |date=2016 |title=The Red Virgin and the Vision of Utopia |location=Milwaukie, OR |publisher=Dark Horse Books |at=Dedication Page |isbn=978-1-5067-0089-2 |oclc=928479924}}</ref>

''Empire Games'', the seventh book in ''[[The Merchant Princes]]'' series by [[Charles Stross]] published in 2017, is dedicated "For Iain M. Banks, who painted a picture of a better way."<ref>{{Cite book |last=Stross |first=Charles |title=Empire Games|date=2017 |isbn=978-0-7653-3756-6 |pages=Dedication Page |publisher=Macmillan |oclc=1107414199}}</ref>

On 13 May 2019, the [[Victor Vescovo#Five Deeps Expedition|Five Deeps Expedition]] broke the deepest ocean dive record in the ''[[DSV Limiting Factor]]''.<ref>{{Cite news |last1=Morelle |first1=Rebecca |author-link=Rebecca Morelle |title=Mariana Trench: Deepest-ever sub dive finds plastic bag |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-48230157 |access-date=13 May 2019 |work=BBC News |date=13 May 2019}}</ref> The support ship was named ''[[DSSV Pressure Drop]]''. Both vessels were named after ships in the Culture series, which is much admired by the explorer [[Victor Vescovo]], also the financial sponsor behind ''Limiting Factor''{{'}}s design and construction. They also have landers named "Flere," "Skaff," and "Closp," named after Culture drones.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Technology |url=https://fivedeeps.com/home/technology/ |website=The Five Deeps Expedition |access-date=2 December 2023}}</ref>