The first ever collection of Iain Banks' 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
Liquid Crystals—State of the Art
✍ Scribed by Prof. Dr. Heino Finkelmann
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1988
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 264 KB
- Volume
- 100
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0044-8249
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