Excession
by Iain Banks
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Author: Iain BanksEdition: Mass Market Paperback
Published: 1998-02-02
ISBN: 0553575376
Number of pages: 512
Publisher: Spectra
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Book Review: My favorite Banks Culture book
Summary: 5 Stars
I'm glad I didn't start with Excession, but built up to it by reading some of his other books. I can sympathize with one reviewer who found it incomprehensible, with little action. I loved it, and think it is the most humorous of them (which may not be saying much). I'd recommend reading some of Banks's earlier books before you try this one.
Summary of Excession
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.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.
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