Excession (Culture) - Softcover

Banks, Iain M.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 185723457X ISBN 13: 9781857234572

Publisher: Orbit, 1997

Synopsis

The fifth Culture book from the awesome imagination of Iain M. Banks, a modern master of science fiction.

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.

Praise for the Culture series:

'Epic in scope, ambitious in its ideas and absorbing in its execution' Independent on Sunday

'Banks has created one of the most enduring and endearing visions of the future' Guardian

'Jam-packed with extraordinary invention' Scotsman

'Compulsive reading' Sunday Telegraph

The Culture series:
Consider Phlebas
The Player of Games
Use of Weapons
The State of the Art
Excession
Inversions
Look to Windward
Matter
Surface Detail
The Hydrogen Sonata

Other books by Iain M. Banks:
Against a Dark Background
Feersum Endjinn
The Algebraist

About this title

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.

Review:

Gripping, touching and funny (TLS)

The story is vital and urgent and has a brilliantly subtle resolution ... wildly enjoyable (INTERZONE)

A dizzying adventure (DAILY MAIL)

Explosive but tender (SUNDAY TIMES)

About this edition

• Publisher: Orbit
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 185723457X
• ISBN 13: 9781857234572
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 464