“[Banks] can summon up sense-of-wonder Big Concepts you've never seen before and display them with narration as deft as a conjuror's fingers.”
— scifi.com
“Banks is a phenomenon...writing pure science fiction of a peculiarly gnarly energy and elegance.”
— William Gibson
“Few of us have been exposed to a talent so manifest and of such extraordinary breadth.”
— New York Review of Science Fiction
The State of the Art
Year
2024
Pages
220
Praise
“[Banks] can summon up sense-of-wonder Big Concepts you've never seen before and display them with narration as deft as a conjuror's fingers.”
— scifi.com
“Banks is a phenomenon...writing pure science fiction of a peculiarly gnarly energy and elegance.”
— William Gibson
“Few of us have been exposed to a talent so manifest and of such extraordinary breadth.”
— New York Review of Science Fiction
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