The State of the Art
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Overview:
- Title: The State of the Art
- Author: Iain M. Banks
- Year: 2007
- ISBN-10: 9781597800747
- Publisher: Night Shade Books
- Price: $14.95
- Pages: 188
- Binding: Trade Paperback
- Type: Collection
- Title Reference: The State of the Art
- Notes:
- Copyright page states "First Edition"
- Publication year derived from the fact that this is a first printing, and from this copyright page statement: "This edition of The State of the Art © 2007 by Night Shade Books"
- Publication month is from Locus1
- Cover art credits both on back cover and copyright page
- Additional price on back cover: C$17.95
- On the title page of the short story "Scratch" there is the following text, which seems to be a mixture between subtitle and belonging to the story text: "OR: The Present and Future of Species HS (sic) Considered as The Contents of a Contemporary Popular Record (qv). Report Abstract/Extract Version 4.2 Begins (after this break);"