The State of the Art

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.

The Culture universe is one where sentient spaceships argue philosophy and AI Minds run utopias with unnerving charm. This is science fiction at its most playful, provocative and gloriously inventive.

All of the novels in the Culture series are stand alone stories and are not narratively linked.

From science fiction to horror, dark fantasy to twisted comedy, all eight stories bear the indefinable stamp of Banks's staggering talent.