Title: The State of the Art

Title: The State of the Art Title Record # 91908
Author: Iain M. Banks
Date: 1989-05-00
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: novella
Series: Culture
Series Number: 3
Language: English

Note: First published in 1989 as a stand-alone work titled The State of the Art by Mark V. Ziesing, per copyright page of the story collection also entitled The State of the Art.

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Translations

Year	Language	Title
1992^ⓘTranslated by Irene Bonhorst	German	Der letzte Stand der Kunst [as by Iain Banks]
1996	French	L'état des arts
2010^ⓘTranslated by Sonia Quémener	French	L'essence de l'art
2011^ⓘTranslated by Cristina Gómez Llorente	Spanish	Última generación
2014^ⓘ Translated by Igor Rendić	Croatian	Vrhunsko stanje stvari

Awards

Place	Year and Award	Category
16	1990 Locus	Best Novella
Nomination (as L'essence de l'art)	2011 Imaginaire	Nouvelle étrangère
1 (as Última generación)	2012 Premio Ignotus	Mejor cuento extranjero - Best Foreign Story

Publications

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Title	Date	Author/Editor	Publisher/Pub. Series	ISBN/Catalog ID	Price	Pages	Format	Type	Cover Artist
The State of the Art	1989-05-00	Iain M. Banks	Mark V. Ziesing	0-929480-06-6	$16.00^?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD	[148]	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	chap	Arnie Fenner
The State of the Art	1989-05-00	Iain M. Banks	Mark V. Ziesing	0-929480-07-4	$40.00^?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD	[148]	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	chap	Arnie Fenner
The State of the Art	1991-00-00	Iain M. Banks	Orbit	0-356-19669-0	£12.95^?£: UK pound. ISO code: GBP	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. ISO code: GBP	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. ISO code: DEM in 1948-1999	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. ISO code: GBP	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. ISO code: GBP	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. ISO code: GBP	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. ISO code: GBP	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
L'état des arts	1996-10-00	Iain M. Banks	DLM	2-87795-092-1	F75.00^?F: French frank. ISO code: FRF in 1960-1999	125	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.	chap	Henri Dhellemmes
The State of the Art	1997-00-00	Iain M. Banks	Orbit	1-85723-030-2	£5.99^?£: UK pound. ISO code: GBP	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. ISO code: GBP	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. ISO code: GBP	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	1999-00-00	Iain M. Banks	Orbit	1-85723-030-2	£6.99^?£: UK pound. ISO code: GBP	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. ISO code: GBP	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. ISO code: USD	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. ISO code: USD	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. ISO code: GBP	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. ISO code: GBP	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. ISO code: USD	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. ISO code: EUR	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. ISO code: GBP		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. ISO code: GBP	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. ISO code: EUR	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. ISO code: GBP	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. ISO code: GBP	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. ISO code: EUR	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. ISO code: GBP	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
Titan 2	2014-11-00	ed. Davorin Horak	Hangar 7 (Titan (Hangar 7) #2)	978-953-57638-1-9	kn 290.00^?kn: Croatian kuna. ISO code: HRK in 1994-2023	629	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	anth	Tae Young Choi
The State of the Art	2024-04-02	Iain M. Banks	Hachette Audio	978-1-6686-3298-7			digital audio download^?Digital recording in any format that is downloaded directly from the Internet. This category includes podcasts.	coll
The State of the Art	2024-04-02	Iain M. Banks	Orbit	978-0-316-56566-0	$18.99^?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD		ebook^?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.	coll	Julian Fischer

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Reviews

Review by Dave Hodson (1990) in Vector 154
Review by John Clute (1991) in Interzone, #48 June 1991