![]() ![]() Look to Windward revisits the utopian but ruthless interstellar Culture introduced in Consider Phlebas, exploring the complex aftermath of a rare Culture mistake-humanitarian tinkering with an unjust civilization that accidentally led to massive civil war and billions dead.Īfter a harrowing battle flashback, the scene shifts to one of the Culture's wonderfully landscaped, ring-shaped artificial worlds called Orbitals. ![]() When using that middle initial M., Iain Banks writes grand space opera combining galactic scope with twisty, tricky probes into the darkest secrets of human and other minds. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. 'Jam-packed with extraordinary invention' Scotsman 'Banks has created one of the most enduring and endearing visions of the future' Guardian 'Epic in scope, ambitious in its ideas and absorbing in its execution' Independent on Sunday ![]() Now, eight hundred years later, the light from the first of those ancient mistakes has reached the Culture Orbital, Masaq'. It led to the destruction of two suns and the billions of lives they supported. It was one of the less glorious incidents of a long-ago war. Banks, a modern master of science fiction. The seventh Culture book from the awesome imagination of Iain M. ![]()
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