Imprint
- Orbit
- Little, Brown Audio
- Orbit
Culture, Fiction, Science fiction
-
-
Imprint
Little, Brown Audio
- Paperback Mar 12, 2024 | 9780356521664 | RRP $24.99 Buy Now
- Audiobook Jan 23, 2014 | 9781405512237 | RRP $35.99 Buy Now
- e-Book Mar 4, 2010 | 9780748110070 | RRP $12.99 Buy Now
Play Sample0:00 -
A stunning new reissue edition of The State of the Art - a collection of short stories of stunning power and awesome imagination, from the modern master of science fiction, Iain M. Banks
The works of Iain M. Banks have forever changed the face of modern science fiction. With breathtaking imagination and extraordinary storytelling, they have secured his reputation as one of the most extraordinary and influential writers in the genre.
'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 inde finable 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.
Praise for The State Of The Art
-
Poetic, humourous, baffling, terrifying, sexy - the books of Iain M. Banks are all these things and more - NME
-
There is now no British SF writer to whose work I look forward with greater keenness - THE TIMES
-
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 perculiarly gnarly energy and elegance - William Gibson
Iain M. Banks
Iain Banks (1954-2013) came to widespread and controversial public notice with the publication of his first novel, The Wasp Factory, in 1984. Consider Phlebas, his first science fiction novel, was published under the name Iain M. Banks in 1987 and began his celebrated ten-book Culture series. He is acclaimed as one of the most powerful, innovative and exciting writers of his generation.
Find a book you’ll love, get our Word Up newsletter
.png?auto=compress&w=150&h=60&fit=crop&fm=jpg)
.png?auto=compress&w=150&h=60&fit=crop&fm=jpg)
Hachette Australia acknowledges and pays our respects to the past, present and future Traditional Owners and Custodians of Country throughout Australia and recognises the continuation of cultural, spiritual and educational practices of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. Our head office is located on the lands of the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation.
