Complex sentence: Following the publication and success of "The Wasp Factory", Banks began to write full-time and would go on to write several more novels before his death in 2013, including several acclaimed science fiction novels that formed the Culture series.
Split into simpler sentences: Following the publication and success of "The Wasp Factory", Banks began to write full-time. Banks would go on to write several more novels before his death in 2013, including several acclaimed science fiction novels that formed the Culture series.