num_pages: 391
description: 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 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 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 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.From the Paperback edition.
language: English
title: Excession
titlecomplete: Excession
characters: Byr Gen-Hofoen
genres: Fiction, Space Opera, Speculative Fiction, Science Fiction Fantasy, Science Fiction, Space, Banks, Audiobook, Fantasy, Cultural
ratings_count: 30052
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: Bantam Books