Excession

Iain M. Banks

Book 4 of The Culture

Language: English

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Fantasy Fiction General Science Fiction Science-Fiction

Publisher: Time Warner Books Uk

Published: May 2, 1997

Genre: Sci-Fi.Aliens, Sci-Fi.Space, Sci-Fi.Robots

Description:

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 . . .