The international sensation Iain M. or to the brink of annihilation.. . .
And in accepting this mission, Byr will be swept into a vast conspiracy that could lead the universe into an age of peace .
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.
But in seeking the secret of the lost sun, Byr risks losing himself.
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.
Diplomat Byr Genar-Hofoen has been selected by the Culture to undertake a delicate and dangerous mission. . . .
Now he takes us on the ultimate trip: to the edge of possibility and to the heart of a cosmic puzzle.
Banks is a true original, an author whose brilliant speculative fiction has transported us into worlds of unbounded imagination and inimitable revelatory power.
Iain M.
By accepting the mission, Byr irrevocably plunges himself into a conspiracy: one that could either lead the universe into an age of peace or to the brink of annihilation.
In Excession, the Culture\'s espionage and dirty tricks section orders Diplomat Byr Gen-Hofoen to steal the soul of a long-dead starship captain.
Banks offers readers a deeply imaginative, wittily satirical tale, proving once again that he is a talent to be reckoned with (Locus).
The international sensation Iain M
