The State of the Art |
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 | "The State of the Art" is a collection of short stories by Iain M Banks, similar in theme to the rest of his writings. The best of the collection is the novella from which the book derives it's title. In that piece, Banks describes how a Culture GCU almost made contact with Earth in 1977, but decided to leave us alone ,at least for a while longer. It is a pity that tale couldn't have been expanded upon and turned into a proper full-length novel, because most of the rest of the stories in this collection are too short and inconsequential. The "best of the rest" in my opinion are "Cleaning Up" , a humourous story about a malfunctioning Quality Control system on a starship and "Descendant" , a sad tale of one man and his sentient spacesuit stranded on an alien world. "Road of Skulls", "Scratch" and "Piece" weren't really worth including in this compilation in my opinion. read more.
Written by Iain M. Banks.
Published 27 May 1993.
Published by Orbit.
rrp £7.99.
224 pages Paperback.
ISBN: 1857230302
ISBN-13: 9781857230307 | |
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