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Excession (Hardcover)

by Iain M. Banks (Author)
4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (67 customer reviews)

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Product details

  • Hardcover: 451 pages
  • Publisher: Orbit (13 Jun 1996)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1857233948
  • ISBN-13: 978-1857233940
  • Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (67 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 286,403 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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    #43 in  Books > Fiction > Authors, A-Z > B > Banks, Iain

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Amazon.co.uk Review
It's not easy to disturb a mega-utopia as vast as the one Iain M. Banks has created in his popular Culture series, where life is devoted to fun and ultra-high-tech is de rigueur. But more than two millennia ago the appearance--and disappearance--of a star older than the universe caused quite a stir. Now the mystery is back, and the key to solving it lies in the mind of the person who witnessed the first disturbance 2,500 years ago. But she's dead, and getting her to cooperate may not be altogether easy.

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Two and a half millennia ago, the artifact appeared in a remote corner of space, beside a trillion-year-old dying sun from a different universe. It was a perfect black-body sphere, and it did nothing. Then it disappeared. Now it is back. 'Banks is a phenomenon...wildly successful, fearlessly creative' William Gibson 'Thrilling, affecting and comic...probably the finest science fiction he has written to date' New Scientist 'Banks has rewritten the libretto for the whole space-opera genre' The Times --This text refers to the