TY  - BOOK
AU  - Banks,Iain M.
TI  - Excession
T2  - Culture
SN  - 9780356521671
AV  - PR6052.A485  E93 2023
PY  - 2025///
CY  - New York
PB  - Orbit
KW  - Print books
KW  - local
N2  - "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.."--
ER  -