Keith Stevenson reviewed The State Of The Art by Iain M. Banks
The first ever collection of Iain Banks’s short fiction, this volume includes the acclaimed novella, …
Review of 'The State Of The Art' on 'Goodreads'
2 stars
A reasonable collection of short stories, but the central Culture-based novella, which revolves around an assessment of 1970s Earth by Special Circumstances, doesn’t hold up well compared to his longer works.