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_q(trade paperback)
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040 _aau
_beng
_erda
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042 _apcc
049 _aAlfaisal Main Library
050 _aPR6052.A485
_bE93 2023
100 1 _aBanks, Iain M.,
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aExcession /
_cIain M. Banks.
250 _a1st us.
260 _c2025
263 _a2511
264 1 _aNew York :
_bOrbit,
_c2025.
300 _a451 pages cm
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _aunmediated
_bn
_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
_bnc
_2rdacarrier
490 0 _aCulture
520 _a"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.."--
655 0 _aPrint books.
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