5/19/2023 0 Comments Banks look to windward![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() A ring-shaped artificial worldlet three million kilometres across, orbiting a gas giant (yes, Banks' Orbitals and Niven's Ringworld were the direct inspiration for the Halo worldlets in the computer game sereis), Masaq' is home to fifty billion intelligent life-forms. The Culture considers this act to have been a tragedy of the war they have been careful never to forget.Ĩ00 light-years from the location of the supernovae lies the Culture Orbital Masaq'. During the course of the war two stars were destroyed, killing untold civilians on the worlds orbiting them. The weak, supposedly decadent Culture crushed the invaders in a conflict that lasted half a century and killed almost 900 billion sentient beings. However, Banks did release a new Culture novel, Matter, last year.Įight centuries ago, the Culture and the Idiran Empire fought a significant war after the latter invaded the Culture's territory. Eliot's poem The Waste Land, as did that of the first Culture book, Consider Phlebas, and as a result nicely bookends the series. Published back in 2000, there was some speculation that this would be the last Culture book, especially because the title of the novel comes from T.S. Banks, and the seventh book set in his Culture universe. Look to Windward is the nineteenth novel by British SF and mainstream author Iain M. ![]()
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