{"product_id":"excession-5-culture-series","title":"Excession #5 Culture Series","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe fifth Culture book from the awesome imagination of Iain M. Banks, a modern master of science fiction.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 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. It was a perfect black-body sphere, and it did nothing. Then it disappeared.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Now it is back.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Praise for the Culture series:\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e'Epic in scope, ambitious in its ideas and absorbing in its execution'\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003eIndependent on Sunday\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 'Banks has created one of the most enduring and endearing visions of the future'\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 'Jam-packed with extraordinary invention'\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003eScotsman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 'Compulsive reading'\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003eSunday Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The Culture series:\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eConsider Phlebas\u003cbr\u003e The Player of Games\u003cbr\u003e Use of Weapons\u003cbr\u003e The State of the Art\u003cbr\u003e Excession\u003cbr\u003e Inversions\u003cbr\u003e Look to Windward\u003cbr\u003e Matter\u003cbr\u003e Surface Detail\u003cbr\u003e The Hydrogen Sonata\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Other books by Iain M. Banks\u003cb\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eAgainst a Dark Background\u003cbr\u003e Feersum Endjinn\u003cbr\u003e The Algebraist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Unity Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43586206826693,"sku":"","price":28.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0625\/6679\/3413\/files\/Excession_fc204005-d8de-4bad-9667-70f343346eaf.jpg?v=1716773308","url":"https:\/\/unitybooks.myshopify.com\/products\/excession-5-culture-series","provider":"Unity Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}