excession
Noun
Meaning
excession (countable and uncountable, plural excessions)
An act or state of exceeding something; excess.
Examples
Also, by custom, as described in Excession, any artifact (be it a tool or vessel) above a certain capability level has to be given sentience.
Minds generally refrain from using their all-seeing capabilities to influence people's reputations, though they are not necessarily themselves above judging people based on such observations, as described in Excession.
In Excession, a sub-group of Minds conspires to provoke a war with the extremely sadistic Affront, although the conspiracy is foiled by a GSV that is a deep cover Special Circumstances agent.
In a 2002 interview with Science Fiction Weekly magazine, when asked: Excession is particularly popular because of its copious detail concerning the Ships and Minds of the Culture, its great AIs: their outrageous names, their dangerous senses of humour.
Character traits like strong shyness, while very rare, are not fully unknown, as shown in Excession.
Excession These hyperspace engines do not use reaction mass and hence do not need to be mounted on the surface of the ship.