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The Secret History · Tartt
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Culture series · Book 4 of 10
The State of the Art
Iain M. Banks
1989
English Science fictionShort storiesLong Now Manual for Civilization
About this book
The first ever collection of Iain Banks’s short fiction, this volume includes the acclaimed novella, The State of the Art. This is a striking addition to the growing body of Culture lore, and adds definition and scale to the previous works by using the Earth of 1977 as contrast. The other stories in the collection range from science fiction to horror, dark-coated fantasy to morality tale.
Who this is for
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A patient, character-first epic that asks you to sit with worldbuilding before any payoff arrives. Readers who love long arcs and slow-burn relationships tend to finish it twice; readers chasing momentum often DNF in the first hundred pages. Plan for unhurried evenings.
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A prose-driven with strong ideas, unsettling and foreign read.
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