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Iain M. Banks is a true original, an author whose brilliant speculative fiction has transported us into worlds of unbounded imagination and inimitable revelatory power. Now he takes us on the ultimate trip: to the edge of possibility and to the heart of a cosmic puzzle. . . . Diplomat Byr Genar-Hofoen has been selected by the Culture to undertake a delicate and dangerous mission. The Department of Special Circumstances--the Culture's espionage and dirty tricks section--has sent him off to investigate a 2,500-year-old mystery: the sudden disappearance of a star fifty times older than the universe itself. But in seeking the secret of the lost sun, Byr risks losing himself. There is only one way to break the silence of millennia: steal the soul of the long-dead starship captain who first encountered the star, and convince her to be reborn. And in accepting this mission, Byr will be swept into a vast conspiracy that could lead the universe into an age of peace . . . or to the brink of annihilation.Product Identifiers
PublisherRandom House Publishing Group
ISBN-100553575376
ISBN-139780553575378
eBay Product ID (ePID)896908
Product Key Features
Book TitleExcession
TopicScience Fiction / Action & Adventure, Science Fiction / Space Opera, Fantasy / Action & Adventure, Science Fiction / General
Publication Year1998
LanguageEnglish
GenreFiction
AuthorIain Banks
Dimensions
Item Height1.1in
Item Length6.7in
Item Width4.2in
Item Weight12.2 Oz
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
Dewey Edition20
Dewey Decimal823/.914
Number of Pages512 Pages