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The Wasp Factory

by Iain Banks · 1984

A disturbing debut novel narrated by a teenage boy living on a remote Scottish island.

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Iain M. Banks · Science fiction author

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Theoretical physicist Sean M. Carroll, photographed in 2017 Sean M. CarrollTheoretical physicist; Johns Hopkins University

Included in Sean Carroll’s personal list of five recommended novels.

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A first-person list of lesser-known fiction reflecting Carroll’s individual tastes. He explicitly cautions that those tastes are not universal; these selections are not a physics syllabus.

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Sean Carroll / Preposterous Universe · 2006-07-26 · accessed 2026-09-30

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Iain M. BanksScience fiction author

Author of the Culture novels, including Consider Phlebas.

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