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Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 823.914
EAN: 9780743421928
ISBN: 0743421922
Label: Pocket Books
Manufacturer: Pocket Books
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 496
Publication Date: November 01, 2002
Publisher: Pocket Books
Release Date: October 29, 2002
Sales Rank: 6603
Studio: Pocket Books
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The Twin Novae battle had been one of the last of the Idiran war, and one of the most horrific: desperate to avert their inevitable defeat, the Idirans had induced not one but two suns to explode, snuffing out worlds and biospheres teeming with sentient life. They were attacks of incredible proportion -- gigadeathcrimes. But the war ended, and life went on.
Now, eight hundred years later, light from the first explosion is about to reach the Masaq' Orbital, home to the Culture's most adventurous and decadent souls. There it will fall upon Masaq's 50 billion inhabitants, gathered to commemorate the deaths of the innocent and to reflect, if only for a moment, on what some call the Culture's own complicity in the terrible event.
Also journeying to Masaq' is Major Quilan, an emissary from the war-ravaged world of Chel. In the aftermath of the conflict that split his world apart, most believe he has come to Masaq' to bring home Chel's most brilliant star and self-exiled dissident, the honored Composer Ziller.
Ziller claims he will do anything to avoid a meeting with Major Quilan, who he suspects has come to murder him. But the Major's true assignment will have far greater consequences than the death of a mere political dissident, as part of a conspiracy more ambitious than even he can know -- a mission his superiors have buried so deeply in his mind that even he cannot remember it.
Hailed by SFX magazine as "an excellent hopping-on point if you've never read a Banks SF novel before," Look to Windward is an awe-inspiring immersion into the wildly original, vividly realized civilization that Banks calls the Culture.
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Iain Banks was born in Scotland in 1954 and published his first book - "The Wasp Factory" - in 1984. He has since divided his writing career between writing 'standard' fiction - as Iain Banks - and Science Fiction, as Iain M. Banks. "Look to Windward" was first published in 2000, and was the sixth of his Sci-Fi books to feature the Culture.
The Culture is a symbiotic society - part humanoid and part artificial intelligence. The artificial intelligence element to the Culture can be sub ... Read More
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I don't think I have ever read a Sci-Fi book that was this emotional. Exciting, inspiring, dissociating, transcendentally inducing... Certainly... But not as emotional... The book explores the unrelenting weight of dark despair on even the most advanced creatures. There is a good dose of Banks' aliens and Banks' plot twists. As other reviewers mentioned, there is not the intense violence of some of the other books. The development of the character Quilan is sublime. It is totally weird how Banks can ... Read More
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Ian Banks' Look to Windward takes its time to develop its story. Banks revels in the universe he has created and will not be rushed to deliver his plot at the expense of painting a complete and complicated picture of his far-off future. Banks invests his technology and societies with grandiose detail and those descriptions do go a long way towards placing his story, though at times they can be long-winded and repetitive. But where Banks really shines is in creating characters to inhabit these well ... Read More
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When expecting a Banks' sci-fi book, expect only excellence.
When expecting a Banks' "Culture" book, expect seven things:
1) war, weapons, death and destruction
2) glanding different sensations to alter reality
3) drones with smart mouths, attitudes and a cunning wit
4) knife missiles slicing through baddie targets
5) quirky aliens in and out of the Culture
6) dark, grim gory scenes that will leave you cringing
7) minds ... Read More
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Eight hundred years ago, during the war between the Culture and the Idiran's the current Hub of Masaq' Orbital was part of a force that destroyed two stars (The Twin Novae Battle) and ended a war. The Chelgrians have just signed an armistice that ended their Caste War (which was instigated by the Culture) in which over 5 billion souls perished. Quildan, lost his love and half his body during this war. Ziller, the greatest composer on Chel, has gone into self-exile on the Culture Orbital Masaq'.
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