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Iain M. Banks: Excession (1998, Bantam Books) 4 stars

Two and a half millennia ago, the artifact appeared in a remote corner of space, …

Review of 'Excession' on 'Goodreads'

5 stars

Impenetrable if you haven't read the other Culture books, but a very welcome exploration of the lives of the Minds and a society run by machine intelligences with god-like powers. I still don't get why they curse so much, though.