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	Excession - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Excession is a science fiction novel by Iain M. Banks and the fourth published to feature The Culture.
		The book details the Culture's response to an "Outside Context Problem", the Excession of the title (essentially a Big Dumb Object), is a perfect fl-body sphere that appears mysteriously on the edges of Culture space.
		One of the main plot elements is the relationship between the Culture and a civilization appropriately named the Affront, a sadistic species which tends to view all other sentient beings (including other members of their own species) as tools for their amusement.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Excession (168 words)

	Excession -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Excession is a (Literary fantasy involving the imagined impact of science on society) science fiction novel by (Click link for more info and facts about Iain M. Banks) Iain M. Banks and the fourth published to feature (Click link for more info and facts about The Culture) The Culture.
		It is a large-scale (Click link for more info and facts about space opera) space opera with a complex plot following many characters across large volumes of space.
		The book, more than any of the other Culture novels, focuses on the Culture's (That which is responsible for one's thoughts and feelings; the seat of the faculty of reason) Minds as protagonists.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/e/ex/excession.htm (164 words)

	Paper Lane: The Game (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		For the record - the account removal request was inititated by me as I dont feel that excession should continue as a player after the events and revelations on Saturday.
		I have been told excession's account can be reinstated later today, but I've had enough.
		I am sorry to leave the GNE and may return at some point in the future (not as excession though) when things have settled down a bit.
	www.paperlane.net /notes/archives/000228.html (335 words)

	The SF Site Featured Review: Excession
		An excession is the Culture's term for a first contact that immediately produces an unpredictably powerful and violent reaction.
		In this case, the excession is an artifact that suddenly appears in an area of space where a star had mysteriously vanished several thousand years earlier.
		The second problem faced by the Culture in Excession is the Affront, an aggressive, fun-loving race competing with the Culture.
	www.sfsite.com /03a/exc28.htm (842 words)

	reviews
		EXCESSION - Forever CD After a too long absence following the release of their 'Jong and Huga' EP on Resurrection Records some years ago, Excession are back with a full album that was well worth the wait.
		Excession's genuinely earnest and evocative moods of sadness have completely won me over and have successfully moved me to a deep contemplative feeling of dreariness.
		Excession seem to be moving away from the ethereal-isms of their early work, towards a more solid, angular sound, somewhat reminiscent of X-mal Deutschland.
	www.btinternet.com /~yasmin22/reviews.htm (923 words)

	Excession — Compare Product Prices & Reviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		"Excession" is the pinnacle of his art; a space opera on a grand scale full of subtle plot turns and moments of breathtaking imagination.
		Okay, Iain Banks is still by far and away the country's finest writer of science fiction at the moment, but after reading Excession I felt the master had started to get a little bored with his vastly popular Culture setting.
		Excessions seems to be bordering on a love or hate affair, it's easy to get lost with the multitude of names, plots, sub plots yet this clears up a quater into the book.
	www.onlinereviewers.co.uk /store/asinsearch_185723457X (224 words)

	Book Reviews: Door Number Three, Tomorrow and Tomorrow, Excession
		The "excession" could destroy the Culture -- or provide the key to breaching the supposedly unbreachable "energy grids" that separate universes.
		When not running the affairs of the galaxy or plotting amongst themselves, they like to romp in the "Land of Infinite Fun," simulating entire universes within their mammoth brains.
		The Excession interests the Minds not only because it's one of the few things in the universe than can threaten them, but also because it presents an opportunity to do something about the misbehaving Affronters.
	www.scifi.com /sfw/issue38/books.html (1575 words)

	Excession Book at Shop Ireland
		Whilst I enjoyed Excession, I didn't feel it matched earlier masterpieces, particularly Consider Phlebas and Player of Games, both of which I would recommend ahead of Excession.
		Usually he deals in fairly cosmic terms, but in Excession he goes a step further and introduces the notion of extra-cosmic interference with our own spatial domain.
		Excession is another book in the 'Culture' series.
	www.shopireland.ie /books/reviews/185723457X (755 words)

	Excession
		And while humans and other alien species all play their parts in making the Culture run, it is the Minds who usually get rolling first, and who make plans for the big picture.
		An Excession is, quite simply, anything that is excessive: excessively powerful, excessively aggressive, excessively mysterious.
		Excession is my personal favorite of the Culture novels so far.
	www.stmoroky.com /reviews/books/excess.htm (660 words)

	Bookshelved Wiki: Excession (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Excession deals with Wiki:TheCulture 's reaction to an excession, an incident involving a superior culture from beyond the bounds of the known universe.
		In general, I enjoyed Excession, because all the conversations between the machine intelligences are interesting in that they expose a lot about the nature of how things work in the Culture.
		However, I was also disappointed, because the Excession itself occupies hardly any of the book, and I found myself getting very impatient towards the end, which was also quite unsatisfying.
	bookshelved.org /cgi-bin/wiki.pl?Excession (420 words)

	Excession - Iain M. Banks - Printed Books Shopping at dooyoo.co.uk
		excession was the first culture book i ever read and i think its a fantastic introduction to the series.
		Excession is set firmly in the future and revolves around the Culture, a universe created by...
		This is book is confusing in the way that it is set in a time where technology is ultra advanced and at some points verges on the point of unbelievable while the rest of the book is taken seriously.
	www.dooyoo.co.uk /printed-books/excession-iain-m-banks (276 words)

	Excession
		The Minds are in control and although the human characters are interesting enough, many of them are never even named and can be dismissed as “out of the loop”.
		Much of Excession is composed of messages and conversations between the Ship Minds, complete with convoluted jargon.
		It felt the right thing to do in Excession; you shouldn’t force ghastly mayhem onto every book if it doesn’t need it and it’s galloping along quite happily, but certainly the next mainstream novel is very grim - a high percentage body count there.
	www.sandm.co.uk /mary/sfjournm/Excession/excession.html (1057 words)

	eBay - Book: Excession (ISBN: 0553575376) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Diplomat Byr Genar-Hofoen is sent to investigate, but his mind seems to be on a past love and a new lust rather than the life-threatening danger at hand.
		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.
		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.
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	Amazon.co.uk: Books: Excession (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Two and a half millennia ago, the artifact appeared in a remote corner of space, beside a trillion-year-old dying sun from a different universe.
		I may be slightly biased towards Excession, as it was the first Banks SF novel i read (i have since read them all).
		The Excession itself remains an enigma throughout, with only cursory details of its abilities.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/185723457X (1056 words)

	Powell's Books - Excession by Iain M Banks
		He does not write 'hard' SF, the kind jammed with technical detail, but has a visionary mode of explication...in which the success of the writing is predicated not on an appeal to reality, but on the prettiness of the metaphor.
		Banks handles the macroscopic and the microscopic with equal aplomb in a story that is by turns thrilling, affecting, and comic, and which is probably the finest science fiction he has written to date."
		"[Excession] leans a trifle too heavily on the Culture lore established in its predecessors to serve as an ideal introduction to Banks's seductive milieu.
	www.powells.com /cgi-bin/biblio?isbn=0553575376 (716 words)

	Excession
		It's interesting to see more of the inside of the Culture, the life and thought of the Minds, and a consideration of what kind of advances the Culture might face next; but the book's use of its (and our) time is perverse.
		About all Banks can come up with to suggest the excession's power are such lame tricks as a) having the excession violate physical laws he himself made up-- ho hum-- and b) the hoary old idea of multiple universes, which we don't even get to see.
		And then when the excession finally talks, Banks can find nothing better to suggest its alienness than to write in lower case without punctuation, and no better language than the bureaucratic ("i assert hereby it fell within acceptable parameters").
	www.zompist.com /excess.html (957 words)

	prawnwarp: Excession
		When I discovered Banks' science fiction, it was at a point when I'd almost completely lost faith in the genre, and I only gave Consider Phlebas a glance because I already knew and liked Banks' non-science fiction stuff like The Wasp Factory and (especially) The Bridge.
		I actually started liking science fiction again because of Phlebas: it had sex, drugs, violence, witty spaceship names, a strand of pitch-fl comedy, and a sense of politics beyond the sad sub-Ayn-Rand anti-welfare-state whining which seems to be the dogma in American writers.
		And the sense of comedy gets way too wacky at times: there are paragraphs which read like something Douglas Adams would have cut from an early draft of The Restaurant at the End of the Universe because it wasn't funny enough.
	www.livejournal.com /users/prawnwarp/14943.html (177 words)

	The Richmond Review, Book Review, Excession by Iain M. Banks
		Readers of Iain M. Banks's Culture novels might have developed some strange notion that the Culture is more or less invulnerable, that its awesome size, its technological sophistication, its liberal idealism might secure it against any threat.
		An excession, broadly, is anything which threatens the Culture's existence and, in this case, takes the form of a small fl body sphere which has parked itself in a reasonably remote corner of the galaxy and done absolutely nothing.
		Its accidental discovery, however, provokes a complex chain of events involving different factions within the Culture and a minor but thorny problem of some uncivilised but quite clever jellyfish called the Affronters.
	www.richmondreview.co.uk /books/excess.html (312 words)

	Excession (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		It's very slow and very little happens; it's not really even about the Excession, its about a messed up romance.
		The writing throughout Excessions is constantly imaginitive, heads in unexpected directions, creates a novel sweeping universe, and frankly is everything I hope for in science fiction.
		My only complaint is that after reading this book I bought 9 or 10 more books by Banks, and I found none provided the enjoyment that this one did.
	e-acting.com /isbn0553575376.html (461 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: Excession (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		With the Culture thus distracted by the Excession, the cruel, dangerously expansionist alien Affront seize the opportunity to hijack a Culture battle fleet and start a war that they only gradually realize they've been suckered into and can't possibly win.
		As always, the structure of the novel itself with its interlacing of different story lines and physical organization is a part of the story itself, although less obviously so than in the earlier _Consider Phlebas_.
		The Excession of the title is the focus of the attention of most of the characters in the story, but Banks is far too gifted a writer to make it the whole story.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0553575376?v=glance (1935 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: Excession (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Here, a huge, enigmatic object referred to as the Excession appears in space and interacts with the Culture's energy grid in ways previously considered impossible.
		This makes Excession a very straight through read, while not sacrificing the quality of writing that I have come to expect from Mr Banks.
		The Excession is an uncomfortable paralell with the obelisk in Clarke's 2001 though.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/1857233948 (1019 words)

	Excession News
		Excession are currently working on new material, more details soon.
		ON 4th October 2003 Excession will be supporting
		Starts at 3.00pm with The Damned, In Strict Confidence, Killing Miranda, Attrition, Ghost of Lemora, Psychophile, Descendants of Cain.
	www.btinternet.com /~yasmin22/news.htm (204 words)

	Moving Hands Music Magazine - Excession, The Writing On The Wall
		Moving Hands Music Magazine - Excession, The Writing On The Wall
		This is a tree track single and Excession’s third release and contains the a-side ”The writing on the wall”, the b-side ”Souls” and a remix of the a-side by Grant Ferraira.
		Excession is a London based duo with Yasmin on vocals and Dave on guitar.
	www.movinghands.net /reviews/detail.asp?id=817 (273 words)

	Dementia Community Forums -> Welcome Excession (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		OMGOMGOMG that's my SO!!! jumps excession* and subjects him to a gratuituous public display of affection*
		except if excession happens to be her SO, in which case, she will be INCREDIBLY naughty
		Hallooooooooooooooo Excession looks around They must have got a room...
	www.dementia.za.net /index.php?showtopic=309 (323 words)

	Excession Communications - Copywriting Services: About Me
		Excession Communications - Copywriting Services: About Me Home
		I've been programming on and off for 20 years; but writing is what I do best and what I love the most.
		My job is to make your words count.
	www.excession.com /about.html (115 words)

	ntpd: synchronisation lost?
		Apr 6 16:23:11 excession ntpd[3477]: time reset 8.723819 s
		Apr 6 16:38:39 excession ntpd[3477]: time reset 8.684497 s
		Apr 6 16:54:07 excession ntpd[3477]: time reset 8.703104 s
	www.redhatconfig.com /msg/891.html (271 words)

	Noir Wallpaper : Animeboards.com Forums
		I'm actually using your Mireille wallpaper at the moment, Excession.
		All of the above (including mine) are in 1600x1200, or should be, so they will work for everyone, rather than just low-resolution peeps.
		Last edited by Excession : 07-09-02 at 12:28 AM.
	animeboards.com /showthread.php?t=38350 (562 words)

	Where's George? - User Profile
		Pino couldn't make it because they don't have a reliable driver at their pizza store, so someone had to stay back to help run it.
		Another shot of the group as everyone was gathering outside the park -- Team Excession, Biagio, Alysn, and Stayfloopy.
		Team Excession went on their own to ride the rides because they had their 2 kids, and the kids couldn't ride any of the big rides.
	www.geocities.com /rpm_wg/gprofile.html (2017 words)

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