Discovering its nature will take him on a journey into his past and the haunting memories of another terrible war whose legacy threatens to be much more than just an unfortunate diplomatic incident. His mission has another purpose one so secret he does not know it himself at first. When the Chelgrian Ziller, a composer of galactic renown living in self-imposed exile on Masaq', learns that an emissary from his home world is being sent to the Orbital, he fears what he assumes to be the worst: that the Chelgrians want him to return.But the composer is far from being the only thing on the Chelgrian emissary's mind. The Scottish author Iain Banks famously led a double life in publishing. But it may still be eclipsed by events from the Culture's more recent past. Hailed by SFX magazine as an excellent hopping-on point if youve never read a Banks SF novel before, Look to Windward is an awe-inspiring immersion into the wildly original, vividly realized civilization that Banks calls the Culture. 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 two suns. 4.21 avg rating (25,690 ratings by Goodreads) Hardcover ISBN 10: 0743421914ISBN 13: 9780743421911 Publisher: Star Trek, 2001 This specific ISBN edition is currently not available.

For the Hub Mind, overseer of the massive bracelet world, its arrival is particularly poignant. Reviews aren't verified, but Google checks for and removes fake content when it's identified. Look to Windward ISBN 13: 9780743421911 Look to Windward Banks, Iain M. Now, eight hundred years later, the light from the first of those ancient deaths has reached the Culture's Orbital called Masaq'. It led to the destruction of two suns and the billions of lives they supported.

It was one of the less glorious incidents of a long-ago war.

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