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Excession

By Iain M. Banks

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| Paperback | 9781857234572

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Book Description

Iain M. Banks is a true original, an author whose brilliant speculative fiction has transported us into worlds of unbounded imagination and inimitable revelatory power. Now he takes us on the ultimate trip: to the edge of possibility and to the heart of a cosmic puzzle....

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Excession

Iain Menzies Banks is one of the few writers in the world with one foot planted firmly on each side of the fence that separates science fiction from the literary mainstream. As Iain Banks he writes intense psychological dramas such as The Wasp Factor ... (read full critics)

sfsite published on Fri, 3 Sep 2010

5 Reviews

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cant believe this is the same author that wrote Player of games. Excession is a fragmented, confused and confusing would-be novel that just cant be compared to its predecessors in the Culture series.maybe Banks was writing for the paycheck. all in all, a disa ... (continue)

cant believe this is the same author that wrote Player of games. Excession is a fragmented, confused and confusing would-be novel that just cant be compared to its predecessors in the Culture series.maybe Banks was writing for the paycheck. all in all, a disapponting endeavour.

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This is the book where the good ship 'Killing Time' first came to be known...

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I liked this book, but I think I would have liked it more if I had read the earlier books in the series first. I found myself wondering what was going on and who the characters were, and it wasn't until I was halfway through when I realized that it was part of a series. I look forward to reading the ... (continue)

I liked this book, but I think I would have liked it more if I had read the earlier books in the series first. I found myself wondering what was going on and who the characters were, and it wasn't until I was halfway through when I realized that it was part of a series. I look forward to reading the earlier books starting with Consider Phlebas.

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krin5292 said on Dec 7, 2011 | Add your feedback

Sloppily written space opera, entertaining enough to finish it.

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alper said on Jul 29, 2009 | Add your feedback

Coruscating inventiveness

This is not one of my all-time favourites by Iain M. Banks but heck, it still beats a lot of what passes for intelligent Science Fiction out there hands down. The Culture is just such a tempting and galvanising intellectual space, and the joke is definitely on the Affront (and all who could be ident ... (continue)

This is not one of my all-time favourites by Iain M. Banks but heck, it still beats a lot of what passes for intelligent Science Fiction out there hands down. The Culture is just such a tempting and galvanising intellectual space, and the joke is definitely on the Affront (and all who could be identified with them).

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OwnedLibrarian said on Jun 12, 2008 | Add your feedback