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Excession

By: Bantam Books

Type: Softcover

Product Line: Science Fiction Novels (Bantam Books)

Last Stocked on 2/19/2024

Product Info

Title
Excession
Publisher
Category
Sub-category
Author
Iain M. Banks
Publish Year
1996
Pages
500
Dimensions
4x7x1.25"
NKG Part #
2147977588
Type
Softcover

Description

Diplomat Byr Genar-Hofoen has been selected by the Culture to undertake a delicate and dangerous mission. The Department of Special Circumstances—the Culture's espionage and dirty tricks section—has sent him off to investigate a 2,500-year-old mystery: the sudden disappearance of a star fifty times older than the universe itself. But in seeking the secret of the lost sun, Byr risks losing himself.

There is only one way to break the silence of millennia: steal the soul of the long-dead starship captain who first encountered the star, and convince her to be reborn. And in accepting this mission, Byr will be swept into a vast conspiracy that could lead the universe into an age of peace . . . or to the brink of annihilation.