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The State of the Art by Iain M. Banks – Contents
A Gift from the Culture
1: Excuses And Accusations
2: Stranger Here Myself
3: Helpless In The Face Of Your Beauty
5: You Would If You Really Loved Me
7: Perfidy, Or, A Few Words From ‘The Drone’
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The State of the Art by Iain M. Banks
The ride’s a little bumpy on the famous Road of Skulls
‘MyGod, what’s happening!’ Sammil Mc9 cried, waking up.
The cart he and his companion had hitched a ride on was shaking violently.
Mc9 put his grubby hands on the plank of rotten wood which formed one of the cart’s sides and looked down at the legendary Road, wondering what had caused the cart’s previously merely uncomfortable rattling to become a series of bone-jarring crashes.He expected to discover that they had lost a wheel, or that the snooze-prone carter had let the vehicle wander right off the Road into a boulder-field, but he saw neither of these things.He stared, goggle-eyed, at the Road surface for a moment, then collapsed back inside the cart.
‘Golly,’ he said to himself, ‘I didn’t know the Empire ever had enemies with headsthat big.Retribution from beyond the grave, that’s what this is.’ He looked forward; the cart’s senile driver was still asleep, despite
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