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 ( ).
Time is the Traitor "Time Is the Traitor" is a science fiction short story by American writer Alfred Bester, originally published in "The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction" in September, 1953. It is included in the Bester collections "The Dark Side of the Earth" (1964), "Star Light, Star Bright" (1976) and "Virtual Unrealities" (1997) and has been extensively anthologized.