Two and a half millennia ago, the artifact appeared in a remote corner of space, beside a trillion-year-old dying sun from a different universe. It was a perfect black-body sphere, and it did nothing. Then it disappeared. Now it is back. 'Banks is a phenomenon ... wildly successful, fearlessly creative' William Gibson 'Thrilling, affecting and comic ... probably the finest science fiction he has written to date' New Scientist 'Banks has rewritten the libretto for the whole space-opera genre' The Times
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Iain M. Banks, die ook schreef als Iain Banks, was een Schotse auteur wiens werken diepgaande thema's van de menselijke samenleving en de toekomst verkenden. Onder het pseudoniem Iain M. Banks creëerde hij uitgebreide en ambitieuze sciencefiction, vaak gesitueerd in ingewikkeld gedetailleerde universums die complexe politieke en filosofische onderbouwingen onderzochten. Zijn schrijfstijl werd gekenmerkt door scherpe humor, indringend sociaal commentaar en een fascinatie voor technologische vooruitgang en de impact daarvan op de mensheid. Zijn verhalen weerspiegelden vaak zijn linkse politieke opvattingen en een intellectuele nieuwsgierigheid naar utopische en anarchistische sociale structuren.
Look to Windward
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It was one of the less glorious incidents of the Idiran wars that 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 deaths has reached the Culture's Masaq' Orbital. For the Hub Mind, overseer of the massive bracelet world, its arrival is particularly poignant. But it may still be eclipsed by events from the Culture's more recent past. When the Chelgrian Ziller, a composer of great renown now living in self-imposed exile, learns that an emissary from his home world is being sent to Masaq' Orbital, he fears the worst: that the Chelgrians want him to return. A considerable debt is owed to the Chelgrians, but Ziller is an honoured guest on their world and the Culture would not force him to leave.They know that they are facing a slight diplomatic problem. However, Ziller is not the only thing on the Chelgrian emissary's mind. If his mission is successful, it illuminate the Culture's future as well as its past. Look out for more information on this book and others on the Orbit website at www.orbitbooks.co.uk