==== Dead Air ====

A Novel by [[Iain Banks]]


==== quotes ====

"Every twenty-four hours about thirty-four thousand children die in the world
from the effects of poverty; from malnutrition and disease,
basically. Thirty-four thousand, from a world, a world-society, that could feed
and clothe and treat them all, with a workably different allocation of
resources. Meanwhile, the latest estimate is that two-thousand eight hundred
people died in the Twin Towers, so it's like that image, that ghastly,
grey-billowing, double-barrelled fall, repeated twelve times every single
fucking day; twenty-four towers, one per hour, throughout each day and
night. Full of children."


--Ken Nott, in Iain Banks' "Dead Air"