Promotion
Use code SPOOKY24 for 20% off sitewide! Exclusions apply.
By clicking “Accept,” you agree to the use of cookies and similar technologies on your device as set forth in our Cookie Policy and our Privacy Policy. Please note that certain cookies are essential for this website to function properly and do not require user consent to be deployed.
The State of the Art
Contributors
Formats and Prices
Price
$18.99Format
Format:
- Trade Paperback $18.99
- ebook $9.99
- Audiobook Download (Unabridged) $24.99
This item is a preorder. Your payment method will be charged immediately, and the product is expected to ship on or around April 2, 2024. This date is subject to change due to shipping delays beyond our control.
Also available from:
From New York Times bestselling and modern master of science fiction, Iain M. Banks, The State of the Art is the acclaimed collection of Banks’s short fiction.
“Banks is a phenomenon…writing pure science fiction of a peculiarly gnarly energy and elegance.” –William Gibson
This is a striking addition to the body of Culture lore, and adds definition and scale to the previous works by using the Earth of 1977 as contrast. The stories in the collection range from science fiction to horror, dark-coated fantasy to morality tale. All bear the indefinable stamp of Iain Banks’s staggering talent.
“Few of us have been exposed to a talent so manifest and of such extraordinary breadth.” –New York Review of Science Fiction
“[Banks] can summon up sense-of-wonder Big Concepts you’ve never seen before and display them with narration as deft as a conjuror’s fingers.” –scifi.com
The Culture series:
Consider Phlebas
The Player of Games
Use of Weapons
The State of the Art
Excession
Inversions
Look to Windward
Matter
Surface Detail
The Hydrogen Sonata
Series:
-
“Banks is a phenomenon...writing pure science fiction of a peculiarly gnarly energy and elegance.”
-
“Banks writes with a sophistication that will surprise anyone unfamiliar with modern science fiction.”
-
“Banks never lets up in a dizzying array of characters, mind-bending ideas, and dazzling action.”
-
“Few of us have been exposed to a talent so manifest and of such extraordinary breadth.”
-
“[Banks] can summon up sense-of-wonder Big Concepts you've never seen before and display them with narration as deft as a conjuror's fingers."
-
"Nobody does it better."
-
"Banks writes space opera on the grand scale: he measures time in eons, space in lightyears, tragedies in gigadeaths."
- On Sale
- Apr 2, 2024
- Page Count
- 224 pages
- Publisher
- Orbit
- ISBN-13
- 9780316565646
Newsletter Signup
By clicking ‘Sign Up,’ I acknowledge that I have read and agree to Hachette Book Group’s Privacy Policy and Terms of Use