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Look to windward

Look to windward

by Iain Banks

Long Now Manual for CivilizationSpace warfareUtopiesLife on other planetsUtopias
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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 not.

Themes & subjects

Long Now Manual for CivilizationSpace warfareUtopiesLife on other planetsUtopiasVie extraterrestre

About the author

Iain Banks
Iain Banks

16 February 1954 – 9 June 2013

Iain Banks (16 February 1954 – 9 June 2013) was a Scottish author. He wrote mainstream fiction under the name Iain Banks, and science fiction as Iain M. Banks, including the initial of his adopted middle name Menzies. In 2008, The Times named Banks in their list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945". Source: Wikipedia

Author

Iain Banks

Pages

369

Read time

≈ 9h

Editions

19

Languages

English, French, Russian

Publisher

Little, Brown Book Group Limited

ISBN

9781857239690

Where to buy

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