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 | For those of you familiar with the Culture, you can skip this paragraph, but for those who aren't - a little preface. The Culture novels, by Banks, concern a race of humans and machines set in the distant future. The Culture is, in many ways, the perfect society. Disease is non-existent, as is money, people can choose to be immortal and as a civilisation it is a military might to be reckoned with. The Culture is ruled - insofar as it has a government - by Minds - highly sentient machines.
This Culture novel is a little different from the rest. Instead of dealing with humans as the main characters, Excession lays a much more important role on the Minds. A second preface is thus: The culture discover an Excession (an object that is deemed to be excessively violent/aggressive/colonising/etc and in this case a perfect Black Body Sphere) which they do not understand and quite frankly do not know how to deal with. The best Minds in the galaxy plot, conspire and scheme about what to ... read more.
Written by Iain M. Banks.
Published 15 May 1997.
Published by Orbit.
rrp £8.99.
451 pages Paperback.
ISBN: 185723457X
ISBN-13: 9781857234572 | |
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