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This book includes a variety of styles: among the first- and third-person narratives, Banks includes one in the form of an incomplete letter (Piece: the narrator is on board the ill-fated 1988 Pan Am 103 flight over Lockerbie). The State of the Art itself appears in the form of an edited report.
The contents comprise:
The collection was published in the US for the first time in 2004 by Night Shade Books . The limited edition of this release contains additional material by Banks not found in the UK version. This is non-fiction and poetry.
Banks does not seem to have produced any other short fiction, suggesting that he finds the novel a more natural form.
Iain M. Banks books