The State Of The Art

Author: Iain M. Banks

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General Fields

  • : 19.99 AUD
  • : 9781857230307
  • : Little Brown
  • : Orbit
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  • : 0.18
  • : July 1993
  • : 197mm X 126mm
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  • : 24.99
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  • : Iain M. Banks
  • : Culture Ser.
  • : Paperback
  • : New edition
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  • : English
  • : 823.914
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  • : 224
  • : Science fiction
  • : 8pp b&w illustrations
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Barcode 9781857230307
9781857230307

Description

A collection of short fiction by the author of "The Wasp Factory" and "Against a Dark Background". The title story is a novella continuing the "Culture" sequence but set on Earth in 1977. The other stories range from science fiction to horror, and dark-coated fantasy to morality tale.

Reviews

'Banks is a phenomenon: the wildly successful, fearlessly creative author of brilliant and disturbing non-genre novels, he's equally at home writing pure science fiction of a peculiarly gnarly energy and elegance' William Gibson 'Few of us have been exposed to a talent so manifest and of such extraordinary breadth' The New York Review of Science Fiction 'Unfailing inventiveness and wit' Guardian

Author description

Iain Banks came to widespread and controversial public notice with the publication of his first novel, THE WASP FACTORY, in 1984. He has since gained enormous popular and critical acclaim for both his mainstream and his science fiction novels.