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
Post-tensioned masonry: state of the art
β Scribed by Dora Foti; Pietro Monaco
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2000
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 408 KB
- Volume
- 2
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1365-0556
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### From Publishers Weekly Accompanied by a lengthy essay, "A Few Notes on the Culture" (1997), these seven arresting short stories and the disturbing novella that provides the title for Banks's latest SF collection all date from 19841987, the period of his bizarre mainstream novel *The Wasp Factor