Item condition

Ships from

GBR View shipping times

• £3.02
• 

Some shelf wear.

Item condition

Ships from

GBR View shipping times

• £3.02
• 

Dispatched from the uk.

Item condition

Ships from

GBR View shipping times

• £3.02
• 

Item condition

Ships from

GBR View shipping times

• £3.02
• 

Our aim is to create value for our customers through the provision of low cost, affordable products and an overall satisfying buying experience.

Item condition

Ships from

GBR View shipping times

• £3.02
• 

Cover has some slight creases and slight fraying on edges.

Item condition

Ships from

GBR View shipping times

• £3.02
• 

This book is in GOOD overall condition. It shows signs of having been read and has general light wear to the cover, spine and pages.

Item condition

Ships from

GBR View shipping times

• £3.02
• 

**SHIPPED FROM UK** We believe you will be completely satisfied with our quick and reliable service. All orders are dispatched as swiftly as possible! Buy with confidence!

Item condition

Ships from

GBR View shipping times

• £3.03
• 

Our books are dispatched from Bridgend, South Wales. Your Satisfaction Guarenteed.

Item condition

Ships from

GBR View shipping times

• £3.13
• 

Item condition

Ships from

GBR View shipping times

• £3.36
• 

Our aim is to create value for our customers through the provision of low cost, affordable products and an overall satisfying buying experience.

Item condition

Ships from

GBR View shipping times

• £4.06
• 

Ex library **SHIPPED FROM UK** We believe you will be completely satisfied with our quick and reliable service. All orders are dispatched as swiftly as possible! Buy with confidence!

Item condition

Ships from

GBR View shipping times

• £4.86
• 

1st edition hardcover edition, fine book in fine dw,

Item condition

Ships from

GBR View shipping times

• £5.01
• 

1-84149-059-8 Review When using that middle initial M., Iain Banks writes grand space opera combining galactic scope with twisty, tricky probes into the darkest secrets of human and other minds. Look to Windward revisits the utopian but ruthless interstellar Culture introduced in Consider Phlebas, exploring the complex aftermath of a rare Culture mistake--humanitarian tinkering with an unjust civilization that accidentally led to massive civil war and billions dead. After a harrowing battle flashback, the scene shifts to one of the Culture's wonderfully landscaped, ring-shaped artificial worlds called Orbitals. A ghastly light is awaited in the sky from distant suns detonated in the war of Consider Phlebas eight centuries earlier; an occasion for sombre festivity, pyrotechnics, and a memorial symphony from exiled alien composer Ziller. Meanwhile another tortured member of Ziller's race--aggressors and victims in that more recent civil war--arrives on a mission whose dreadful nature emerges through fragments of slowly returning memory. Elsewhere, in the exuberantly imagined airsphere home of floating "behemothaurs" almost too huge to imagine, the clue to what's happening falls belatedly into inexperienced hands...While scattering red herrings and building tension for his final burst of literal and moral fireworks, Banks shows us around the Orbital in sensuous, lyrical travelogues. Rich scenery, high living, low comedy and dangerous sports contrast with reflections on mortality and the lingering aftershock of both those wars, recalled by ravaged veterans. Look to Windward culminates with deft twists, inversions, parallels, and savage justice, as unexpected as we expect from this author. Recommended. --David Langford--This text refers to the Hardcover edition. SFX 'In terms of sheer storytelling prowess and verve, LOOK TO WINDWARD is a work of genius'--This text refers to the Hardcover edition. See all Reviews.

Item condition

Ships from

GBR View shipping times

• £5.15
• 

Item condition

Ships from

GBR View shipping times

• £5.21
• 

Ships from the UK. Former Library book. Shows definite wear, and perhaps considerable marking on inside. Your purchase also supports literacy charities.

Item condition

Ships from

GBR View shipping times

• £5.29
• 

P/B. 403 pages, condition is very good. 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.

Item condition

Ships from

GBR View shipping times

• £5.39
• 

Dispatched from the uk.

Item condition

Ships from

GBR View shipping times

• £5.77
• 

Item condition

Ships from

GBR View shipping times

• £5.86
• 

357pp. Covers a little worn and creased.

Item condition

Ships from

GBR View shipping times

• £5.92
•