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Excession

Iain Banks

1996389 pagesabout 6–9 hours
1996
first published
  • 1996Little, Brown Book Group Limited · ENGISBN 9781857234169
  • 1996Orbit · 451 pagesISBN 9781857233940
  • 1997Orbit · ENGISBN 9781857234572
  • 1997Little, Brown Book Group Limited · ENGISBN 9781857235272
  • 1997Bantam Books · 389 pages · ENGISBN 9780553374605
  • 1998Bantam Books · 499 pages · ENGISBN 9780553575378
  • 2008Little, Brown Book Group Limited · 464 pages · ENGISBN 9780748110001
  • No further detail recordedISBN 9783453129092

Two and a half millennia ago, the artifact appeared in a remote corner of space, beside a trillion-year-old dying sun from a different universe. It was a perfect black-body sphere, and it did nothing. Then it disappeared. Now it is back.

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