The State Of The Art

A collection of short fiction by the author of The Wasp Factory and Against a Dark Background. The title story is a novella continuing the Culture sequence but ... » 

A collection of short fiction by the author of The Wasp Factory and Against a Dark Background. The title story is a novella continuing the Culture sequence but set on Earth in 1977. The other stories range from science fiction to horror, and dark-coated fantasy to morality tale. «