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
The state of the art of dynamic coatings
β Scribed by Pier Giorgio Righetti; Cecilia Gelfi; Barbara Verzola; Laura Castelletti
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2001
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 211 KB
- Volume
- 22
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0173-0835
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