Title: Excession

Title: Excession Title Record # 6886
Author: Iain M. Banks
Date: 1996-00-00
Type: NOVEL
Series: Culture
Series Number: 5
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Language: English
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Translations

Year	Language	Title
1997^ⓘTranslated by Irene Bonhorst	German	Die Spur der toten Sonne [as by Iain Banks]
1997	Italian	L'altro universo
1998^ⓘTranslated by Jérôme Martin	French	Excession
2002^ⓘTranslated by Irene Bonhorst	German	Exzession [as by Iain Banks]
2004^ⓘTranslated by Manuel Mata Álvarez-Santullano	Spanish	Excesión

Awards

Place	Year and Award	Category
Win	1996 BSFA	Best Novel
Nominations Below Cutoff	1996 Tiptree / Otherwise	Gender-bending SF
13	1997 Locus	Best SF Novel
Nomination	1997 BFA	August Derleth Fantasy Award (Best Novel)
Nominations Below Cutoff	1997 Hugo	Best Novel
Win (as Die Spur der toten Sonne)	1998 Kurd Lasswitz Prize	Bestes ausländisches Werk
4 (as Excesión)	2005 Premio Ignotus	Mejor novela extranjera - Best Foreign Novel

Publications

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Title	Date	Author/Editor	Publisher/Pub. Series	ISBN/Catalog ID	Price	Pages	Format	Type	Cover Artist
Excession	1996-00-00	Iain M. Banks	Orbit	1-85723-394-8	£15.99^?£: UK pound	455	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel	Mark Salwowski
Excession	1997-00-00	Iain M. Banks	Orbit	1-85723-457-X	£6.99^?£: UK pound	455	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	novel	Mark Salwowski
Excession	1997-00-00	Iain M. Banks	Orbit	1-85723-457-X	£6.99^?£: UK pound	455	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	novel	Mark Salwowski
Excession	1997-00-00	Iain M. Banks	Orbit	1-85723-457-X	£6.99^?£: UK pound	455	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	novel	Mark Salwowski
Die Spur der toten Sonne	1997-00-00	Iain Banks	Heyne	3-453-12909-1	DM 39.80^?DM: German (Deutsche) mark	559	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel
Excession	1997-02-00	Iain M. Banks	Bantam Spectra	0-553-37460-5	$12.95^?$: US dollar	390	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	novel	Paul Youll
Excession	1997-06-00	Iain M. Banks	Bantam Spectra / SFBC	15598	$10.98^?$: US dollar	390	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel	Paul Youll
L'altro universo	1997-06-00	Iain M. Banks	Editrice Nord (Cosmo Collana di Fantascienza #280)	88-429-0970-X	Lit 26,000^?Lit: Italian lira	476	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	novel	Bruce Pennington
Excession	1998-00-00	Iain M. Banks	Orbit	1-85723-457-X	£6.99^?£: UK pound	455	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	novel	Mark Salwowski
Excession	1998-02-00	Iain M. Banks	Bantam Spectra	0-553-57537-6	$5.99^?$: US dollar	499	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel	Paul Youll
Excession	1998-02-00	Iain M. Banks	Robert Laffont (Ailleurs et demain)	2-221-08572-8	F149.00^?F: French frank	490	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	novel	Jürgen Ziewe^?Jurgen Ziewe
Excession	1999-00-00	Iain M. Banks	Orbit	1-85723-457-X	£6.99^?£: UK pound	455	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	novel	Mark Salwowski
Excession	2001-00-00	Iain M. Banks	Orbit	1-85723-457-X	£7.99^?£: UK pound	455	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	novel	Mark Salwowski
Excession	2002-00-00	Iain M. Banks	Orbit	1-85723-457-X	£7.99^?£: UK pound	451	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	novel	Mark Salwowski
Exzession	2002-03-00	Iain Banks	Heyne (Heyne Science Fiction & Fantasy #6392)	3-453-19679-1	€8.95^?€: Euro	656	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel	Chris Foss
Excession	2002-06-00	Iain M. Banks	Le Livre de Poche (Le Livre de Poche - Science Fiction #7241)	2-253-07241-9	€7.50^?€: Euro	634	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel	Manchu
Excesión	2004-00-00	Iain M. Banks	La Factoría de Ideas (Solaris Ficción #44)	84-95024-11-X		365	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	novel	Mark Salwowski
L'altro universo	2004-03-00	Iain M. Banks	Editrice Nord (Narrativa Nord #184)	88-429-1308-1	€17.00^?€: Euro	492	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel
Excession	2005-00-00	Iain M. Banks	Orbit	1-85723-457-X	£7.99^?£: UK pound	455	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	novel	Bruce Coleman
Excession	2005-00-00	Iain M. Banks	Orbit	1-85723-457-X	£7.99^?£: UK pound	455	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	novel	Bruce Coleman
Excession	2006-00-00	Iain M. Banks	Orbit	978-1-85723-457-2	£7.99^?£: UK pound	451+ [4]	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	novel	Bruce Coleman
Excession	2007-00-00	Iain M. Banks	Orbit	978-1-85723-457-2	£7.99^?£: UK pound	451+ [4]	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	novel	Bruce Coleman
Excession	2008-00-00	Iain M. Banks	Orbit	978-1-85723-457-2	£8.99^?£: UK pound	451+ [4]	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	novel	Bruce Coleman
Excession	2008-09-04	Iain M. Banks	Orbit	978-0-7481-1000-1	£5.99^?£: UK pound		ebook^?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.	novel	Bruce Coleman
Excession	2011-00-00	Iain M. Banks	Orbit	978-1-85723-457-2	£8.99^?£: UK pound	455	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	novel	Bruce Coleman
Excession	date unknown	Iain M. Banks	Bantam Spectra	0-553-57537-6	$6.99^?$: US dollar	499	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel	Paul Youll
Excession	date unknown	Iain M. Banks	Bantam Spectra	0-553-57537-6	$6.99^?$: US dollar	499	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel	Paul Youll

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Reviews

Review by Mary Branscombe (1996) in SFX, July 1996
Review by Paul J. McAuley (1996) in Interzone, #110 August 1996
Review by Faren Miller (1996) in Locus, #428 September 1996
Review by Joseph Nicholas (1996) in Vector 190
Review by Curt Wohleber (1997) in Science Fiction Weekly, 27 January 1997
Review by Ian Shutter (1997) in The Zone and Premonitions, #5, Spring 1997
Review by Chris Gilmore (1997) in Foundation, #70 Summer 1997
Review by Mark L. Olson (1998) in Aboriginal Science Fiction, Spring 1998
Review by Bill Sheehan (1998) in The New York Review of Science Fiction, March 1998
Review [French] by Dominique Warfa (1998) in Galaxies, #9
Review by Greg L. Johnson (1998) in SF Site, March 1998, (1998)
Review by Steve Jackson (I) (1998) in Nova Express, Winter/Spring 1998
Review by Glen Engel-Cox (1999) in First Impressions, Installment Forty-Nine
Review by Colin Steele (2001) in SF Commentary, #77

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