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Excession by Iain Banks · Booklabria

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Excession

Science Fiction

Excession

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CultureBook 5 of 9

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Book 5, Excession, this book
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First published: 1996
Editions: 14 in 4 languages
Series: Culture, 5

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.

Subjects: Science Fiction

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14 in 4 languages

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English10 German2 French1 Spanish1

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