Look To Windward

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Book Description

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 Continue

Brushes with doom

Look to Windward Iain M Banks Orbit, £16.99, 357pp Buy it at BOL Space doesn't excite writers any more. The final frontier is so 20th century, my dear. The new terrae incognitae are internal, invisible, immaterial: genetics, nanotechnology, virtual r ... (read full critics)

guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

Look to Windward By Iain M. Banks

ppearances can be deceivingIain M. Banks has been publishing huge, complex space-opera science fiction for nearly 15 years and, fortunately, he shows no sign of stopping. Most of his science fiction novels are set in a far future universe and feature ... (read full critics)

bookpage published on Fri, 17 Sep 2010

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Not your typical "big bang" Banks ending

I think I got used to much to the way Ian Banks ends his stories, they always end in the least expected way, with a huge surprise that he's been building up to since the first page. This book is no different, but I'd be lying if I said I didn't expect more. It did got me thinking though: is the end ... (continue)

I think I got used to much to the way Ian Banks ends his stories, they always end in the least expected way, with a huge surprise that he's been building up to since the first page. This book is no different, but I'd be lying if I said I didn't expect more. It did got me thinking though: is the end all that matters? No, its not all that matters, its important but THAT important. The story till the very end was exciting and intriguing, and with the right amount of imagination the environment can be quite breathtaking.

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