Banks, Iain M. creator author. text Print books. nyu 2025 1st us. monographic eng

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451 pages cm "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.."-- Iain M. Banks. PR6052.A485 E93 2023 9780356521671 2025942427 au 250703 20260304110545.0 in00024271351 eng