Look to Windward
2000 • 403 pages

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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.

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Culture is a 10-book series with 10 primary works first released in 1987 with contributions by Iain M. Banks.

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Surface Detail
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