[auntienomen]

If you like these books -- early classics of the genres -- it's going to be well worth your time to check out Fantasy Masterworks collection (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fantasy_Masterworks). It's a set of reissued sci-fi and fantasy novels, chosen by the British publisher Millennium for their quality and influence on later writers.

3/5 of the books in the linked article are included.

It's not perfect-- it's missing War for the Oaks, for example, and doesn't have any Iain M Banks. But there's an awful lot of good material in there.

[noir_lord]

Missing Iain M Banks is a weird omission indeed - perhaps they couldn't get the reprint rights.

[georgefrowny]

Both Gollancz (SF Masterworks) and Orbit (most Banks books) are ultimately owned by Lagardère/Hachette. Presumably they could wrangle the rights if they really wanted.

I suppose they just don't see any need to republish Banks books, most of which are quite recent, continue to be popular and are mostly still in print under Orbit as part of an already unified series.

[sherr]

Iain M Banks is science-fiction rather than fantasy, so I would not expect him in a "Fantasy Masterworks" series. The two genres have some over-lap but are distinct.

[ZeroGravitas]

The SF masterworks sister project has a Banks book, and the link in the wiki article to that list also has a quote from him praising their other choices as

> "amazing" and "genuinely the best novels from sixty years of SF".

[twirlip]

The page is more for lesser known authors, while the late Iain M Banks is certainly a master of science fiction, he is one of the best known authors.