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Look to Windward (Culture #7)

Iain M. Banks

Paperback | Pages: 496 pages

Rating: 4.2 | 21117 Users | 635 Reviews

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Title	:	Look to Windward (Culture #7)
Author	:	Iain M. Banks
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 496 pages
Published	:	November 1st 2002 by Pocket Books/Simon & Schuster (NY) (first published August 2000)
Categories	:	Science Fiction. Fiction. Space. Space Opera

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The Twin Novae battle had been one of the last of the Idiran war, one of the most horrific. Desperate to avert defeat, the Idirans had induced not one but two suns to explode, snuffing out worlds & biospheres teeming with sentient life. They were attacks of incredible proportion - gigadeathcrimes. But the war ended and life went on. Now, 800 years later, light from the 1st explosion is about to reach the Masaq' Orbital, home to the Culture's most adventurous & decadent souls. There it will fall upon Masaq's 50 billion inhabitants, gathered to commemorate the deaths of the innocent & 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 & self-exiled dissident, the honored Composer Ziller. Ziller claims he will do anything to avoid a meeting with 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 can't 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 Banks calls the Culture.

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Original Title:	Look to Windward
ISBN:	0743421922 (ISBN13: 9780743421928)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	Culture #7
Characters:	Major Quilan
Setting:	The Masaq' Orbital
Literary Awards:	Locus Award Nominee for Best SF Novel (2001), Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis Nominee for Bestes ausländisches Werk (Best Foreign Work) (2004), Tähtivaeltaja Award Nominee (2005)

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In my quest to read the Culture books in publication order (for no good reason, since doing so isn't necessary), I've made it to my seventh stop along the way. Everything I love about Banks is here: amusing AIs, thoughtful humans and aliens, the Culture and other cultures, etc. (if you're not in the know, the Culture is a post-scarcity galactic civilization whose citizens are freed from such drudgeries as money and jobs - it's an idea that makes for great science fiction). A lot of typical

Gentile or JewO you who turn the wheel and look to windwardConsider Phlebas, who was once handsome and tall as you.I have a weakness for anyone who quotes Eliot, particularly the Waste Land. At first I thought that this title was a bit much given that Banks had already used Consider Phlebas, which seemed to me more appropriate to the novel it graces. But it just occured to me: the people in this book are those who 'look to windward'; the entire book is an extended meditation on the message of

heavy, heavy themes done with a light and benevolent touch. the topics on display include suicide and suicide bombings, terrorism, genocide, imperialism/cultural colonialism, the nature of war, the afterlife... and feature a loveable cast of pretentious robot drones, adorable and often furry alien creatures, and one very melancholy Artificial Intelligence. VAGUE SPOILERS: the last four chapters are jaw-dropping in scope, moving from an elegiac double suicide (i teared up!) to a mind-boggling

Another excellent Culture novel, as usual it has a philosophical and political background, exploring the clash between cultures that revel in war and those that choose peace but are prepared to fight if need be but are often able to avoid it. The Culture Minds machine minds thousands of times more powerful than humans offer a perspective on human weakness no matter how well-intentioned.While remaining a fast-moving, interesting story.

This entry into the series has many themes similar to Consider Phlebas (being the spiritual successor), while being a story that can be enjoyed on its own. Much of this story takes place upon one of the Culture's more unique orbitals, Masaq', which allows for a interesting look at how different members of the civilization view life and death.

Amazing. My second Culture novel after The Player of Games, and I think I'm at a point where I'm going to be ravenously devouring them. Like many others have mentioned, this is a novel about loss and mourning -- thinking back on the events of the book, not much actually happens, but Banks uses enough narrative shift and experiments with perspective that it always remains fascinating. Part of the joy in reading these books is just for the world-building, honestly. And as always, his aliens are a

Hard to pin down why I enjoyed this novel so much, but likely a combination of the rich contextual vocabulary as well as the artfully woven tapestry of the plot that fulfilled all the elements I enjoy in a novel. It was a murder, mystery, and suspense intertwined with reflective soul searching in the face of great sorrow. This is a novel I would have loved to critique back in school instead of some of the classics I was forced to consume at too early an age. Hope this doesn't set me up for