num_pages: 455
description: 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
language: English
title: Excession
titlecomplete: Excession (Culture #5)
characters: Byr Gen-Hofoen
genres: Fiction, Space Opera, Speculative Fiction, Science Fiction Fantasy, Science Fiction, Space, Banks, Audiobook, Fantasy, Cultural
ratings_count: 30050
series: Culture
awards: awardedAt: 883641600000
name: Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis
category: Bestes ausländisches Werk (Best Foreign Work), awardedAt: 820483200000
name: British Science Fiction Association Award
category: Best Novel, awardedAt: 820483200000
name: James Tiptree Jr. Award
category: Longlist, awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Premio Ignotus
category: Mejor novela extranjera (Best Foreign Novel), awardedAt: 852105600000
name: British Fantasy Award
category: Best Novel (August Derlith Fantasy Award)
publisher: Orbit