Best-selling author Iain Banks has announced he has cancer and only several months to live.
In a statement posted on his website, the 59-year-old Scottish novelist revealed he is in the final stages of gall-bladder cancer and is unlikely to live "beyond a year".
"I am officially Very Poorly," he says. "After a couple of surgical procedures, I am gradually recovering from jaundice caused by a blocked bile duct, but that - it turns out - is the least of my problems.
Banks is considered to be among the 50 greatest British writers since 1945 "I have cancer. It started in my gall bladder, has infected both lobes of my liver and probably also my pancreas and some lymph nodes.
"The bottom line, now, I'm afraid, is that as a late stage gall bladder cancer patient, I'm expected to live for 'several months' and it's extremely unlikely I'll live beyond a year.
"So it looks like my latest novel, The Quarry, will be my last."
Mr Banks writes mainstream fiction under the name Iain Banks, and science fiction as Iain M. Banks, which includes the initial of his adopted middle name Menzies.
Enthusiasts of his work took to Twitter to express their sadness and share memories of some of his best remembered novels.
In 2008, The Times said Mr Banks belonged in their list of the 50 greatest British writers since 1945.
Some of his best-known works include The Wasp Factory, published in 1984, and Complicity, published in 1993, which was later made into the film Retribution in 2000.
His statement announced he had withdrawn from all planned public engagements and that his publishers were doing all they could to bring the publication date of The Quarry forward.
He also announced his intention to marry.
"I've asked my partner Adele if she will do me the honour of becoming my widow (sorry - but we find ghoulish humour helps). By the time this goes out we'll be married and on a short honeymoon".
Mr Banks revealed he was weighing up the possibility of undergoing treatment in an attempt to prolong the time he has left to live.
"There is a possibility that it might be worth undergoing a course of chemotherapy to extend the amount of time available," he said.
"However, that is still something we're balancing the pros and cons of, and, anyway, it is out of the question until my jaundice has further and significantly, reduced."
A website is to be set up where friends, family and fans will be able to leave messages for the author.
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