#Excession | Reviews of Excession in English Books| Hashreview

#Excession

Excession, first published in 1996, is Scottish writer Iain M. Banks's fifth science fiction novel to feature the Culture, a fictional interstellar society. It concerns the response of the Culture and other interstellar societies to an unprecedented Read More..

Ratings

Likes

Reviews

HASH INFO

Review# tag	Excession
Review# tag
Hash title	Excession
Hash title
Description	Excession, first published in 1996, is Scottish writer Iain M. Banks's fifth science fiction novel to feature the Culture, a fictional interstellar society. It concerns the response of the Culture and other interstellar societies to an unprecedented alien artifact, the Excession of the title.The book is largely about the response of the Culture's Minds (AIs with enormous intellectual and physical capabilities and distinctive personalities) to the Excession itself and the way in which another society, the Affront, whose systematic brutality horrifies the Culture, tries to use the Excession to increase its power. As in Banks' other Culture novels the main themes are the moral dilemmas which confront a hyperpower and how biological characters find ways to give their lives meaning in a post-scarcity society which is presided over by benign super-intelligent machines. The book features a large collection of Culture ship names, some of which give subtle clues about the roles these ships' Minds play in the story. In terms of style, the book is also notable for the way in which many important conversations between Minds resemble email messages complete with headers.
Description	Excession, first published in 1996, is Scottish writer Iain M. Banks's fifth science fiction novel to feature the Culture, a fictional interstellar society. It concerns the response of the Culture and other interstellar societies to an unprecedented alien artifact, the Excession of the title.The book is largely about the response of the Culture's Minds (AIs with enormous intellectual and physical capabilities and distinctive personalities) to the Excession itself and the way in which another society, the Affront, whose systematic brutality horrifies the Culture, tries to use the Excession to increase its power. As in Banks' other Culture novels the main themes are the moral dilemmas which confront a hyperpower and how biological characters find ways to give their lives meaning in a post-scarcity society which is presided over by benign super-intelligent machines. The book features a large collection of Culture ship names, some of which give subtle clues about the roles these ships' Minds play in the story. In terms of style, the book is also notable for the way in which many important conversations between Minds resemble email messages complete with headers.

Created By

Admin

DETAILS

Name	Excession
Name
Authors	Iain M. Banks
Authors
Translator
Translator
Genre	Science fiction novel
Genre
Series	The Culture
Series
Number in series
Number in series
Language	English
Language
Country	Scotland
Country

PUBLISH

Story timeline
Story timeline
Pages	451 pp
Pages
Media_type	Print (Hardback & Paperback)
Media_type
Isbn	1-85723-394-8
Isbn
Oclc	35379578
Oclc
Publisher	Orbit Books
Publisher