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Culture Series #6
Gallery Books
December 2023
On Sale: December 5, 2023
384 pages
ISBN: 1982156066
EAN: 9781982156060
Kindle: B001D20270
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Science Fiction Space Opera
This “sophisticated space opera” (The New
York Times), filled with suspense and humor, masterfully
explores the horrors of war—from the acclaimed author
of The Wasp Factory.
The Twin Novae battle
had been one of the last of the Idiran war—and one of
the most horrific. Desperate to avert their inevitable
defeat, the Idirans had induced not one but two suns to
explode, snuffing out worlds and biospheres teeming with
sentient life. They were attacks of incredible
proportion—gigadeathcrimes. But the war ended, and
life went on.
Now, eight hundred years later,
light from the first explosion is about to reach the
Masaq’ Orbital, home to the Culture’s most
adventurous and decadent souls. There it will fall upon
Masaq’s 50 billion inhabitants, gathered to
commemorate the deaths of the innocent and 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
and self-exiled dissident, the honored Composer Ziller.
Ziller claims he will do anything to avoid a meeting
with Major 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 cannot remember it.
Hailed
by SFX Magazine as “an excellent hopping-on
point if you’ve never read a Banks science fiction
novel before”, Look to Windward is an awe-
inspiring immersion into the wildly original, vividly
realized civilization that Banks calls the Culture.
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