The State Of The Art

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

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

There is now no British SF writer to whose work I look forward with greater keenness

Poetic, humourous, baffling, terrifying, sexy - the books of Iain M. Banks are all these things and more

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.