The State of the Art

Cover illustration by Les Edwards

Iain M. Banks' only short-story collection, never before published in the US.

Contents:

• Road of Skulls
• A Gift from the Culture
• Odd Attachment
• Descendant
• Cleaning Up
• Piece
• The State of the Art
• Scratch
• Some Notes On the Culture

Trade Hardcover

Limited: contains material not in the trade edition, and is signed by Iain M. Banks, with a bound-in ribbon bookmark and limited to 150 copies