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Publication: The State of the Art

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  • Publication: The State of the ArtPublication Record # 92401
  • Author: Iain M. Banks
  • Date: 2007-04-00
  • ISBN: 978-1-59780-074-7 [1-59780-074-0]
  • Publisher: Night Shade Books
  • Price:
    $14.95?$: US dollar
  • Pages: 188
  • Format:
    tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
  • Type: COLLECTION
  • Cover: The State of the Art (2004) • by Les Edwards
  • 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);"
  • External IDs:
Cover art supplied by ISFDB on this Web page
Collection Title: The State of the Art • (1991) • collection by Iain M. Banks

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