Look To Windward
Published on 2. August 2001
Book
Paperback/Softback
416 pages
978-1-84149-059-5 (ISBN)
Description
The seventh Culture book from the awesome imagination of Iain M. Banks, a modern master of science fiction.
It was one of the less glorious incidents of a long-ago war.
It led to the destruction of two suns and the billions of lives they supported.
Now, eight hundred years later, the light from the first of those ancient mistakes has reached the Culture Orbital, Masaq'.
The light from the second may not.
Praise for the Culture series:
'Epic in scope, ambitious in its ideas and absorbing in its execution' Independent on Sunday
'Banks has created one of the most enduring and endearing visions of the future' Guardian
'Jam-packed with extraordinary invention' Scotsman
'Compulsive reading' Sunday Telegraph
The Culture series:
Consider Phlebas
The Player of Games
Use of Weapons
The State of the Art
Excession
Inversions
Look to Windward
Matter
Surface Detail
The Hydrogen Sonata
Other books by Iain M. Banks:
Against a Dark Background
Feersum Endjinn
The Algebraist
It was one of the less glorious incidents of a long-ago war.
It led to the destruction of two suns and the billions of lives they supported.
Now, eight hundred years later, the light from the first of those ancient mistakes has reached the Culture Orbital, Masaq'.
The light from the second may not.
Praise for the Culture series:
'Epic in scope, ambitious in its ideas and absorbing in its execution' Independent on Sunday
'Banks has created one of the most enduring and endearing visions of the future' Guardian
'Jam-packed with extraordinary invention' Scotsman
'Compulsive reading' Sunday Telegraph
The Culture series:
Consider Phlebas
The Player of Games
Use of Weapons
The State of the Art
Excession
Inversions
Look to Windward
Matter
Surface Detail
The Hydrogen Sonata
Other books by Iain M. Banks:
Against a Dark Background
Feersum Endjinn
The Algebraist
Reviews / Votes
In terms of sheer storytelling prowess and verve, LOOK TO WINDWARD is a work of genius * SFX * A great book * NEW SCIENTIST * Banks keeps ratcheting up the suspense * GUARDIAN * A mordant wit, a certain savagery and a wild imagination * MAIL ON SUNDAY *More details
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Little, Brown Book Group
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Paperback (UK-B)
Dimensions
Height: 196 mm
Width: 126 mm
Thickness: 30 mm
Weight
280 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-84149-059-5 (9781841490595)
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Iain Banks (1954-2013) came to widespread and controversial public notice with the publication of his first novel, The Wasp Factory, in 1984. Consider Phlebas, his first science fiction novel, was published under the name Iain M. Banks in 1987 and began his celebrated ten-book Culture series. He is acclaimed as one of the most powerful, innovative and exciting writers of his generation.