Comments on: Iain M Banks : Look to Windward : Review : Culture Special Circumstances are everywhere

By: IAIN M. BANKS – MATTER – The Shellworld Review — yeah it’s long but it’s another awesome Culture novel « Show Me SciFi

Thu, 07 Oct 2010 10:26:59 +0000

[...] the ending of Use of Weapons still remains the greatest twist, the Special Circumstances sub-plot in Look to Windward is still better as is SC’s devious game playing in The Player of [...]

By: Iain M. Banks – The Player of Games – Azad falls to Culture « Show Me SciFi

Tue, 22 Jun 2010 02:42:25 +0000

[...] Iain M. Banks – The Player of Games – Azad falls to Culture June 21, 2010 Posted by showmescifi in scifi. Tags: Azad, Culture, Iain M. Banks, Morat, Player of Games, science fiction, scifi trackback We’re relatively new fans of Iain M. Banks and his awesome Culture series (previously we’ve reviewed Consider Phlebas, , Use of Weapons,and Look to Windward). [...]

By: Snafu

Snafu — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 22:04:36 +0000

Curiously, this is one of his books I re-read most often, because it has lots of ridiculously funny moments, the cast is sort of The Wizard of Oz’s, and an Orbital is an infinitely fun place to explore. Banks ought to do a Culture book for children

And the tone is just right: cheerful and somber at once. I’d say Look to Windward completes the different angles we could examine The Culture from.

To me, Matter was far less successful and the most self-indulgent of them all.

(Is that the book’s cover, really? It’s terrible)