What type of authors are Alfred Bester and Iain Banks?
Iain Banks Iain Banks (16 February 1954 – 9 June 2013) was a Scottish author. He wrote mainstream fiction under the name Iain Banks and science fiction as Iain M. Banks, including the initial of his adopted middle name Menzies ( ).
Iain R. Edgar Iain Edgar (born 1948) is a social anthropologist at Durham University. He is a leading expert in the field of dreams and dreaming, and a specialist in altered states of consciousness and mental health. Starting his career in social work, Edgar received a PhD from the University of Keele, where he studied under Ronnie Frankenberg. His thesis "Dreamwork, Anthropology and the Caring Professions: A Cultural Approach to Dreamwork" discusses a wide range of psychodynamic possibilities and develops a method to work with dreams within a professional care environment.