Late sci-fi legend Iain M. Banks's unfinished novel The New Scientist Book Club has been reading the late Iain M. Banks’s science fiction novel The Player of Games. Banks’s friend and fellow sci-fi author Ken MacLeod joined us to chat about the book and about his late friend. MacLeod, an award-winning writer in his own right, spoke about everything from how the pair met as teenagers at school to Banks’s influences, and even his idea for a final novel set in the universe of the Culture. Watch the

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