He wants to achieve something in the same ballpark as what Iain M Banks achieved, and rightly thinks that's going to be hard and take a bunch of thought. Lots

He wants to achieve something in the same ballpark as what Iain M Banks achieved, and rightly thinks that's going to be hard and take a bunch of thought. Lots of writers care about their craft, and are not pursuing the minimum that their audience will let them get away with, but rather have specific things or innovations they are looking to achieve. > The hand waving is almost a component of the genre. I take this post as asking "but what if it weren't".