- English Science fiction, Short stories, Long Now Manual for Civilization
The first ever collection of Iain Banks’s short fiction, this volume includes the acclaimed novella, The State of the Art. This is a striking addition to the growing body of Culture lore, and adds definition and scale to the previous works by using the Earth of 1977 as contrast. The other stories in the collection range from science fiction to horror, dark-coated fantasy to morality tale.
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- Author
- Iain Banks
- First published
- 1989
- Pages
- 206
- Publisher
- La Factoría De Ideas, Heyne, Firebird Distributing
- Editions
- 15
- Language
- English, French, Spanish, German
- ISBN
- 9782843440977
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“The ride's a little bumpy on the famous Road of Skulls... "My God, what's happening!" Sammil Mc9 cried, waking up.”
Iain Banks (16 February 1954 – 9 June 2013) was a Scottish author. He wrote mainstream fiction under the name Iain Banks, and science fiction as Iain M. Banks, including the initial of his adopted middle name Menzies. In 2008, The Times named Banks in their list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945". Source: Wikipedia
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