Excession
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.
Buy this book at Amazon- Publisher
- Bantam Spectra / Orbit Books
- Year
- 2008
- ISBN-13
- 9780748110001
- Genre
- Science Fiction
- Topics
- First contact with mysterious artifactSpace opera diplomacyAdvanced AI civilizations
Awards
- BSFA Award for Best NovelWon(1996)
- British Fantasy Award for Best Novel (August Derleth Award)Shortlisted(1997)
- Locus Award for Best Science Fiction NovelShortlisted(1997)
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