The State of the Art by Iain M. Banks

We are familiar with the celebrated author who uses a pseudonym when writing something low-brow and trashy. But how do we deal with those two identical writers “Iain Banks” and “Iain M. Banks”? As the theme song in the old Patty Duke Show:

They walk alike, they talk alike, sometimes they even dress alike. You could lose your mind . . . When cousins are t…