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Excession

Iain Banks

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#505 of 8,085 books · #127 in Science Fiction

Won the BSFA Award for Best Novel (1996). Also shortlisted or longlisted for 2 other awards.

Two and a half millennia ago in a remote corner of space, beside a trillion-year-old dying sun from a different universe, the artifact appeared. It was a perfect black-body sphere, and it did nothing. Then it disappeared. Now it is back. Diplomat Genar-Hofoen of Special Circumstances is sent to investigate but, sidetracked by an old flame and the spoiled-brat operative Ulver Seich, and faced with the systematic depravities of a race who call themselves the Affront, it's anyone's guess whether he'll succeed.

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Publisher
Bantam Spectra / Orbit Books
ISBN-13
9780748110001
Topics
First contact with mysterious artifactSpace opera diplomacyAdvanced AI civilizations

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