A stunning new reissue edition of Excession - a space opera of stunning power and awesome
imagination from Iain M. Banks one of the most important and influential writers in modern
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 PhlebasThe Player of GamesUse of
WeaponsExcessionInversionsLook to WindwardMatterSurface DetailThe Hydrogen Sonata The State of
the Art Other books by Iain M. Banks: Against a Dark BackgroundFeersum EndjinnThe Algebraist
Also now available: The Culture: The Drawings - an extraordinary collection of original
illustrations faithfully reproduced from sketchbooks Banks kept in the 1970s and 80s depicting
the ships habitats geography weapons and language of Banks' Culture series of novels in
incredible detail.
