Look To Windward

Paperback / ISBN-13: 9781841490595

Price: £9.99

ON SALE: 18th July 2005

Genre: Fiction & Related Items

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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

Reviews

In terms of sheer storytelling prowess and verve, LOOK TO WINDWARD is a work of genius
SFX
A great book
NEW SCIENTIST
A mordant wit, a certain savagery and a wild imagination
MAIL ON SUNDAY
Banks keeps ratcheting up the suspense
GUARDIAN