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The State of the Art Kindle ☆ The State ePUB Þ state pdf, The State kindle, of the free, State of the pdf, The State of the Art MOBIThere are some authors whose short fiction I enjoy much than their novels Iain Banks is not one of them A couple of these are great but I think for the most part that he really excels when he has maximum literary space to explore a story and develop his characters 'A Gift from the Culture' and 'The State of the Art' are definite high points in the collectionIndividual storiesRoad of Skulls 25Nothing particularly specialA Gift From the Culture 45I dug this one a lot It had a noir uality to it Told from the perspective of someone who opted to leave the culture for a pre scarcity society My favorite in the bookOdd Attachment 45Pretty humorous encounter with a plant life formDescendant 25Another culture story I didn't particularly like this one that much Cleaning Up 35A story about trash disposal gone wrong One man's trashThe State of the Art 45This novella book 4 of The Cu
The State of the Art Kindle ☆ The State ePUB Þ state pdf, The State kindle, of the free, State of the pdf, The State of the Art MOBIThe titular novella in this collection is a perfect distillation of the rhetoric and dialectic behind the Culture series its themes its very purpose for being It features the entertaining Culture standbys of wry Ships persnickety droids and agents of mixed motivations It discusses policies of non interference juggled with policies of behind the scenes intervention; going native versus so called objective distance; the idea that a natural life and a true engagement with living must include accepting that evil will always exist and as a counterpoint the idea that systemic evil all of the isms and all of the greed and self interest can and should actually be eradicated Heady and at times heavy handed stuff forcefully articulated and delivered with the usual Banks panache and wit Very well doneMost of the remaining stories are limp and forgettable or strident and not particularly enjoyable and in the case of A Gift from t
The State of the Art Kindle ☆ The State ePUB Þ state pdf, The State kindle, of the free, State of the pdf, The State of the Art MOBIThe first two stories are OK but nothing specialThe third one is uite funny I can't count the number of times I've seen a hapless spaceman get rent limb from limb by a bug eyed monster But what's the monster's motivation Banks comes up with a lovely answer#4 is also a nice perspective flip in a classic SF scenario The guy in the space suit needs to walk a long way across the surface of a hostile planet to reach safety We always see it from the guy's point of view How about the suit#5 is amusing too I liked the alien sp
The State of the Art Kindle ☆ The State ePUB Þ state pdf, The State kindle, of the free, State of the pdf, The State of the Art MOBIMy husband overheard me muttering to myself about this book being out of print in the US so he secretly ordered it for me from the UK When it arrived I somehow assumed I'd ordered it for myself and forgotten about it so I just tossed it on the to read stack without comment He had to hint and prod a bit before admitting he'd bought it for me as a gift He's sweet; I'm a dork AnywayEvery Culture book I've read so far has been better than the last Though this one is actually a short story collection it includes the fourth installment of the Culture series a novella called The State of the Art that is both funnier and heartbreaking than the previous three novels which are all to varying degrees uite funny and heartbreaking Here we meet up again with Diziet
The State of the Art Kindle ☆ The State ePUB Þ state pdf, The State kindle, of the free, State of the pdf, The State of the Art MOBIWhat an odd collection Some are irreverent and humorous some uite bizarre I was a bit disappointed with most but found Descendant a gem and worth the price of admission It's the story of a Culture solider and his sentient EVA suit both injureddamaged and stranded on a barren alien planet Banks vividly depicts a sense of intense desolation as man and suit embark on a harrowing journey
The State of the Art Kindle ☆ The State ePUB Þ state pdf, The State kindle, of the free, State of the pdf, The State of the Art MOBII continue to be intrigued by Banks' Culture series so I figured I'd track this one down I have no idea why it never seems to be on library or bookstore shelves but it wasn't that hard to track down a copy Definitely not my favorite in the series but worth reading As short story and novella collections go I found it pretty uneven Two of the stories A Gift From Culture and Descendant worked well for me and I was particularly taken with the latterThe eponymous novella The State of the Art was thought provoking
The State of the Art Kindle ☆ The State ePUB Þ state pdf, The State kindle, of the free, State of the pdf, The State of the Art MOBIThe only other Banks book I have read is Player of Games which I loved I think as a compilation this book fell a little short for me I actually love short stories so I was left feeling a little disappointedA couple thoughts on the individual storiesRoad of Skulls I felt like this wasn't uite long enough or focused enoughA Gift From the Culture I liked this one Kind of a little slice of life showing someone who has left the culture for something much grittyOdd Attachment I liked this one until the very end I honestly think it got
The State of the Art Kindle ☆ The State ePUB Þ state pdf, The State kindle, of the free, State of the pdf, The State of the Art MOBIThe book is actually a miscellaneous of short stories and a novella The latter and one o perhaps two stories are set within the universe of Culture the rest is not I understand that this should be indicated in some way to the reader before buying the bookThat said some stories and the novella that gives the book its name are very good Anyway I can not get rid of the feeling of porridge in the book as a whole by some intrancending stories some that seem experimental and some other that seems that Iain M Banks does not take himself seriously or us readersPlease do not misunderstand me Iain M Banks's talent is evident in every sentence and of course I do not regret having read this work although actually it can not be considered except maybe
The State of the Art Kindle ☆ The State ePUB Þ state pdf, The State kindle, of the free, State of the pdf, The State of the Art MOBIThe State of the Art is a collection of short stories some of which relate to the Culture novels and some of which don’t or at least don’t overtly I actually wasn’t much impressed by Iain M Banks as a short story writer it seems the best of the stories was the titular story itself which is both a Culture story and rather longer than the other stories in the collection which gave it space to interest me and space for him to set up the kind of story that’s grabbed
The State of the Art Kindle ☆ The State ePUB Þ state pdf, The State kindle, of the free, State of the pdf, The State of the Art MOBIA selection of short fiction set in the Culture universe where your tools and euipment have opinions too and can talk back to you My own tendency to talk to my surroundings would definitely have to changeI really wanted to like the story where the Culture visits Earth Is it still a first contact story if the Earth doesn’t know it’s been contacted A bit on the preachy side obviously written when Banks was annoyed with our treatment of our environment and each other but acknowledging that we’ve got something special here I liked it without have my socks blown offBanks is such a good writer but not all of these stories demonstrate his best efforts It does rather feel like a catch all displaying varying degrees of polish Still well worth reading for fans of the CultureBook number 2