Banks, Iain M., <br/><br/>
Excession / 
Iain M. Banks. 
 - 1st us. 
 -  2025 
 - 451 pages cm 
 - Culture .
<br/><br/> "Two and a half millennia ago in a remote corner of space, beside a trillion-year-old dying sun from a different universe, the artifact appeared. It was a perfect black-body sphere, and it did nothing. Then it disappeared. Now it is back. Diplomat Genar-Hofoen of Special Circumstances is sent to investigate but, sidetracked by an old flame and the spoiled-brat operative Ulver Seich, and faced with the systematic depravities of a race who call themselves the Affront, it's anyone's guess whether he'll succeed.."-- 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780356521671 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2025942427 
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Print books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PR6052.A485   / E93 2023