How long does it take to read The State of the Art?
The State of the Art by Iain Banks takes about 3 hours 47 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 4 of Culture series
Previous: Use of Weapons Next: Excession
About 3 hours 47 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1989. 206 pages, about 56,650 words.
8 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 6 hours 18 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 3 hours 47 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 22 minutes |
The page count is the median across 15 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The first ever collection of Iain Banks’s short fiction, this volume includes the acclaimed novella, The State of the Art. This is a striking addition to the growing body of Culture lore, and adds definition and scale to the previous works by using the Earth of 1977 as contrast. The other stories in the collection range from science fiction to horror, dark-coated fantasy to morality tale.
Subjects: English Science fiction, Short stories, Long Now Manual for Civilization
