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1) Excession
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Culture Universe series volume 5
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Diplomat Byr Genar-Hofoen is sent to investigate the disappearance of a mysterious star fifty times older than the universe, but in order to do so he must steal the soul of the deceased starship captain who discovered it and persuade her to be reborn.
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When sex slave Lededje Y'breq is murdered by a politician on the planet Sichult, the artificial intelligence running one of the Culture's immense starships resurrects her so she can seek revenge. Meanwhile, the Culture is uneasily watching the conflict over whether to preserve virtual Hells for the souls of "sinners" or give them the release of death.
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In a distant-future, highly advanced society of seemingly unlimited technological capability, a crime is committed within a war. For one brother it means a desperate flight, and a search for the one--maybe two--people who could clear his name. For his brother it means a life lived under constant threat of treachery and murder. And for their sister, it means returning to a place she'd thought abandoned forever. Only the sister is not what she once...
7) Transition
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The Concern, an omnipotent organization led by a sinister genius, attempts to take over the world with help from its countless invisible agents, including Temudjin Oh, a mysterious Mongolian assassin; and the Philosopher, a nameless, torturer without a face, while bandit queen Mrs. Mulverhill and the sedated Patient 8262 fight back.
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"The Nasqueron Dwellers inhabit a gas giant on the outskirts of the galaxy, in a system awaiting its wormhole connection to the rest of civilisation. In the meantime, they are dismissed as decadents living in a state of highly developed barbarism, hoarding data without order, hunting their own young and fighting pointless formal wars." "Seconded to a military-religious order he's barely heard of - part of the baroque hierarchy of the Mercatoria, the...
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