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Item Details
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EXCESSION
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| By: |
Iain M. Banks |
| Format: |
Paperback |
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£10.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
185723457X |
| ISBN 13: |
9781857234572 |
| Publisher: |
LITTLE, BROWN BOOK GROUP |
| Pub. date: |
15 May, 1997 |
| Pages: |
464 |
| Description: |
Two and a half millennia ago, the Excession, a perfect black sphere, appeared in a remote corner of space. It did nothing, then disappeared. Now it is back, and someone who saw it the first time has information on its staggering potential, but she is living out her death in the Sleeper Service. |
| Synopsis: |
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 |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Orbit |
| Prizes: |
Winner of British Science Fiction Association Award 1996 |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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