A review by mjfmjfmjf
The State of the Art by Iain M. Banks

2.0

I don't understand why anyone would like this, though it is certainly all not equally bad. The final two bits are unreadable. Okay that's somewhat unfair - Scratch is random drivel, where A Few Notes on the Culture is mostly just uninteresting. In general the short stories were okay but kind of boring. Where the novella was also just kind of boring. Some of the ideas are at least somewhat interesting but they are not presented in an interesting manner. I should give up. I probably won't.