Take a photo of a barcode or cover
willdr 's review for:
Look to Windward
by Iain M. Banks
Yeah, this book is just as good as when I first read it. A companion piece to Consider Phlebas, taking place some 800 years after. A meditation on grief, and duty, and risk. We spend most of the time on Maq' Orbital, inhabited by some fifty-billion Culture citizens. The light from a terrible event in the Iridan War is about to show in the sky, having travelled all across the galaxy. An exiled composer from the proud, warlike Chel race writes a symphony in honour, while an ambassador comes to try to convince him to return home. But his mission is not what it seems. Banks paints a beautiful and engaging world that you can't help but ache to inhabit.