Excesión

, #5

Paperback, 368 pages

Spanish language

Published by La Factoría de Ideas.

ISBN:
978-84-95024-11-4
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3 stars (7 reviews)

En la Cultura, una vasta sociedad de dimensiones galácticas y protegida y custodiada por las Mentes, la forma más avanzada de inteligencia artificial, nada parece capaz de poner en peligro la placentera existencia de los seres humanos. Ni siquiera los Affront, la única especie capaz de rivalizar con la Cultura es una seria amenaza. Sin embargo, nadie había contado con el extraño suceso que tiene lugar en un remoto y olvidado extremo del universo. Excesión, una misteriosa esfera oscura que se resiste a todo estudio, ha aparecido donde dos milenios y medio antes una estrella se desvaneció por completo. La humanidad y los Affront se disputan la posesión de los secretos tecnológicos que Excession guarda en su interior. Pero los planes de la Cultura se enfrentan a serias dificultades. Mientras el embajador Genar Hofeon intenta encontrar una desaparecida y excéntrica inteligencia artificial, un grupo disidente de Mentes de la Cultura …

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Review of 'Excession' on 'LibraryThing'

3 stars

Not the best of the Culture books by a long shot, though it's an interesting addition. I enjoyed the atmosphere of menace and mistrust that builds through the book, and the focus given to all the non-human minds fleshes the Culture out nicely, but the story felt overambitious and overloaded. At times it was seriously hard to follow which of the amusingly-named ships were doing what, with whom, under which pretenses, and after a well-paced build-up for about 3/4 of the book, the last few chapters pulled together a little too quickly to be satisfying.

Review of 'Excession' on 'LibraryThing'

3 stars

Not the best of the Culture books by a long shot, though it's an interesting addition. I enjoyed the atmosphere of menace and mistrust that builds through the book, and the focus given to all the non-human minds fleshes the Culture out nicely, but the story felt overambitious and overloaded. At times it was seriously hard to follow which of the amusingly-named ships were doing what, with whom, under which pretenses, and after a well-paced build-up for about 3/4 of the book, the last few chapters pulled together a little too quickly to be satisfying.