Look to Windward (Culture #7)
Iain M. Banks
4.25 · 28 ratings · Published: 26 Aug 2000
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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- aliens 3
- war/big battles 3
- hard sci-fi 3
- artificial intelligence 2
- action / adventure 2
- utopia 2
- revenge 2
- epic 2
- robots/androids 1
- distant future 1
- military, war & conflict 1
- futuristic 1
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- audiobook 3
- book 1
- adult fiction 1
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