Iain M. Banks Look To Windward Paperback Book

The novels of Iain M. Banks have forever changed the face of modern science fiction. His Culture books combine breathtaking imagination with exceptional storytelling, and have secured his reputation as one of the most extraordinary and influential writers in the genre. Banks is a phenomenon William Gibson It was one of the less glorious incidents of a longago war. It led to atrocities on an extraordinary scale. 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 doomed stars has reached the Culture Orbital, Masaq, bathing its fifty billion inhabitants in the rays of their societys ancient mistake. Amongst them is Major Quilan, sent on a mission so secret that not even he knows what it is, and determined to exact his revenge against the Culture at any cost. Praise for the Culture seriesEpic in scope, ambitious in its ideas and absorbing in its execution Independent on SundayBanks has created one of the most enduring and endearing visions of the future GuardianJampacked with extraordinary invention ScotsmanCompulsive reading Sunday Telegraph The Culture seriesConsider PhlebasThe Player of GamesUse of WeaponsExcessionInversionsLook to WindwardMatterSurface DetailThe Hydrogen SonataThe State of the ArtOther books by Iain M. BanksAgainst a Dark BackgroundFeersum EndjinnThe AlgebraistAlso now available The Culture The Drawings an extraordinary collection of original illustrations faithfully... | Iain M. Banks Look To Windward Paperback Book