Ikwezi reviewed The State Of The Art by Iain M. Banks (Culture, #4)
The first ever collection of Iain Banks’s short fiction, this volume includes the acclaimed novella, …
Review of 'The State Of The Art' on 'Goodreads'
2 stars
I only read the two Culture stories, not the rest. The back cover says the title story "adds definition and scale" to the Culture mythos, which I would agree with, but in the sense that it diminishes them by putting Earth alongside. And the dude converting to Catholicism was just a bit much.