The State Of The Art
- Author Iain M. Banks
- Narrator Peter Kenny
- Publisher Little, Brown Book Group
- Publish Date 23 January 2014
- Run Time 6 hours and 20 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Science fiction.
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What to expect
'Banks is a phenomenon' William Gibson
The State of the Art is the only collection of Iain M. Banks's short fiction and includes the acclaimed Culture novella of the same name.
From science fiction to horror, dark fantasy to twisted comedy, all eight stories bear the indefinable stamp of Banks's staggering talent.
Praise for the novels of Iain M. Banks:
'Epic in scope, ambitious in its ideas and absorbing in its execution' Independent on Sunday
'Banks has created one of the most enduring and endearing visions of the future' Guardian
'Jam-packed with extraordinary invention' Scotsman
'Compulsive reading' Sunday Telegraph
The novels of Iain M. Banks:
The Culture series
Consider Phlebas
The Player of Games
Use of Weapons
Excession
Inversions
Look to Windward
Matter
Surface Detail
The Hydrogen Sonata
The State of the Art
Other books by Iain M. Banks
Against a Dark Background
Feersum Endjinn
The Algebraist
Also now available:
The Culture: The Drawings - an extraordinary collection of original illustrations faithfully reproduced from sketchbooks Banks kept in the 1970s and 80s, depicting the ships, habitats, geography, weapons and language of Banks' Culture series of novels in incredible detail.
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