From The Greats
Author of the Culture novels, including Consider Phlebas.
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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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The Wasp Factory appears in 1 currently documented source-backed recommendation.
Sean M. Carroll
Theoretical physicist; Johns Hopkins University
Recommended
Carroll’s own recommended-novels list
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Documented citation: Included in Sean Carroll’s personal list of five recommended novels.
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Sean Carroll / Preposterous Universe · 2006-07-26 · accessed 2026-09-30
personal-site · Carroll’s own recommended-novels list
The authored article lists five novels and explicitly recommends them. This title appears in the article body, not in reader comments. Catalog wording is a citation paraphrase.
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