Title: Descendant
Title Record # 91904
Author: Iain M. Banks
Date: 1987-08-00
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: novelette
Series: Culture
Language: English
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Author: Iain M. Banks
Date: 1987-08-00
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: novelette
Series: Culture
Language: English
Note: No direct quote of "the Culture", but features a drone, knife missiles, AI levels measured in decimal numbers and Orbitals.
The copyright page of State of the Art (Orbit trade paperback edition, ISBN 1-85723-030-2) does not mention this story. It states that a different story, "Odd Attachment," was first published in Tales from the Forbidden Planet.
This appears to be mistaken -- the story "Descendant" first appeared in Tales from the Forbidden Planet, and "Odd Attachment" first appeared in "Arrows of Eros."
Synopsis: A shot-down spaceman has to walk around a large part of a planet in an intelligent powered space suit.
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Title | Date | Author/Editor | Publisher/Pub. Series | ISBN/Catalog ID | Price | Pages | Format | Type | Cover Artist | Verif |
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Tales from the Forbidden Planet | 1987-08-00 | ed. Roz Kaveney | Titan Books | 1-85286-004-9 | £4.95?£: UK pound |
256 | 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. |
anth | Brian Bolland | |
Tales from the Forbidden Planet | 1987-08-00 | ed. Roz Kaveney | Titan Books | 1-85286-005-7 | £9.95?£: UK pound |
256 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
anth | Brian Bolland | |
Tales from the Forbidden Planet | 1987-10-00 | ed. Roz Kaveney | Titan Books | 1-85286-006-5 | £30.00?£: UK pound |
256 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
anth | ||
The State of the Art | 1991-00-00 | Iain M. Banks | Orbit | 0-356-19669-0 | £12.95?£: UK pound |
182 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
coll | ||
The State of the Art | 1991-03-00 | Iain M. Banks | Orbit | 0-356-19669-0 | £12.95?£: UK pound |
182 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
coll | ||
Ein Geschenk der Kultur | 1992-00-00 | Iain Banks | Heyne (Heyne Science Fiction & Fantasy #4904) | 3-453-05827-5 | DM 9.80?DM: German (Deutsche) mark |
286 | pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper. |
coll | John Harris | |
The State of the Art | 1993-00-00 | Iain M. Banks | Orbit | 1-85723-030-2 | £5.99?£: UK pound |
216 | 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. |
coll | ||
The State of the Art | 1994-00-00 | Iain M. Banks | Orbit | 1-85723-030-2 | £5.99?£: UK pound |
216 | 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. |
coll | ||
The State of the Art | 1996-00-00 | Iain M. Banks | Orbit | 1-85723-030-2 | £5.99?£: UK pound |
216 | 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. |
coll | Mark Salwowski | |
The State of the Art | 1996-00-00 | Iain M. Banks | Orbit | 1-85723-030-2 | £0.00?£: UK pound |
216 | 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. |
coll | Mark Salwowski | |
The State of the Art | 1997-00-00 | Iain M. Banks | Orbit | 1-85723-030-2 | £5.99?£: UK pound |
216 | 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. |
coll | Mark Salwowski | |
The State of the Art | 1997-00-00 | Iain M. Banks | Orbit | 1-85723-030-2 | £5.99?£: UK pound |
216 | 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. |
coll | Mark Salwowski | |
The State of the Art | 1998-00-00 | Iain M. Banks | Orbit | 1-85723-030-2 | £6.99?£: UK pound |
216 | 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. |
coll | Mark Salwowski | |
Monolith 002 | 1999-00-00 | ed. Davorin Horak | Zagrebačka naklada?Zagrebacka naklada Zagrebachka naklada |
953-6234-50-5 | 560 | 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. |
anth | |||
The State of the Art | 1999-00-00 | Iain M. Banks | Orbit | 1-85723-030-2 | £6.99?£: UK pound |
216 | 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. |
coll | Mark Salwowski | |
The State of the Art | 2001-00-00 | Iain M. Banks | Orbit | 1-85723-030-2 | £7.99?£: UK pound |
216 | 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. |
coll | Mark Salwowski | |
The State of the Art | 2004-11-00 | Iain M. Banks | Night Shade Books | 1-892389-38-X | $25.00?$: US dollar |
188 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
coll | Les Edwards | |
The State of the Art | 2004-11-00 | Iain M. Banks | Night Shade Books | 1-892389-99-1 | $45.00?$: US dollar |
188 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
coll | Les Edwards | |
The State of the Art | 2005-00-00 | Iain M. Banks | Orbit | 1-85723-030-2 | £7.99?£: UK pound |
216 | 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. |
coll | ||
The State of the Art | 2006-00-00 | Iain M. Banks | Orbit | 1-85723-030-2 | £7.99?£: UK pound |
216 | 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. |
coll | ||
The State of the Art | 2007-04-00 | Iain M. Banks | Night Shade Books | 978-1-59780-074-7 | $14.95?$: US dollar |
188 | 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. |
coll | Les Edwards | |
L'essence de l'art | 2010-03-00 | Iain M. Banks | Le Bélial'?Le Belial' |
978-2-84344-097-7 | €21.00?€: Euro |
278 | 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. |
coll | Manchu | |
The State of the Art | 2010-03-04 | Iain M. Banks | Hachette Digital | 978-0-7481-1007-0 | £5.99?£: UK pound |
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF. |
coll | Blacksheep | ||
The State of the Art | 2011-00-00 | Iain M. Banks | Orbit | 978-1-85723-030-7 | £8.99?£: UK pound |
214 | 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. |
coll | Blacksheep | |
Última generación | 2011-05-00 | Iain M. Banks | La Factoría de Ideas (Solaris Ficción #150) | 978-84-9800-692-6 | €20.95?€: Euro |
279 | 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. |
coll | Koldo Campo | |
The State of the Art | 2013-00-00 | Iain M. Banks | Orbit | 978-1-85723-030-7 | £8.99?£: UK pound |
214 | 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. |
coll | Blacksheep | |
The State of the Art | 2013-00-00 | Iain M. Banks | Orbit | 978-1-85723-030-7 | £8.99?£: UK pound |
214 | 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. |
coll | Blacksheep | |
L'essence de l'art | 2013-02-00 | Iain M. Banks | Le Livre de Poche (Le Livre de Poche - Science Fiction #32868) | 978-2-253-15990-2 | €7.10?€: Euro |
309 | pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper. |
coll | ||
The State of the Art | 2013-11-30 | Iain M. Banks | Orbit | 978-0-356-52166-4 | £10.99?£: UK pound |
224 | 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. |
coll |