Title: Look to Windward

Title: Look to Windward Title Record # 6887
Author: Iain M. Banks
Date: 2000-08-00
Type: NOVEL
Series: Culture
Series Number: 7
Webpages: Wikipedia-EN
Language: English

Synopsis: In a distant future dominated by a galaxy-wide hyper-advanced post-scarcity culture of multiple species and AI drones, ships, and minds managing orbital megastructures, they receive an emissary of a species recently recovered from a civil war inadvertently caused by the culture's contact with them.

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Other Titles

Translations

Year	Language	Title
2002^ⓘTranslated by Bernard Sigaud	French	Le sens du vent
2003^ⓘTranslated by Irene Bonhorst	German	Blicke windwärts [as by Iain Banks]

Awards

Place	Year and Award	Category
7	2001 Locus	Best SF Novel
Nomination (as Blicke windwärts)	2004 Kurd Lasswitz Prize	Bestes ausländisches Werk

Publications

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Title	Date	Author/Editor	Publisher/Pub. Series	ISBN/Catalog ID	Price	Pages	Format	Type	Cover Artist
Look to Windward	2000-08-00	Iain M. Banks	Orbit	1-85723-981-4	£10.99^?£: UK pound. ISO code: GBP	357	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	novel	Mark Salwowski
Look to Windward	2000-08-10	Iain M. Banks	Orbit	1-85723-969-5	£16.99^?£: UK pound. ISO code: GBP	357	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel	Mark Salwowski
Look to Windward	2000-08-10	Iain M. Banks	Orbit	1-85723-969-5		357	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	novel	Mark Salwowski
Look to Windward	2001-05-03	Iain M. Banks	Orbit	1-84149-061-X	£6.99^?£: UK pound. ISO code: GBP	403	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel	Mark Salwowski
Look to Windward	2001-08-00	Iain M. Banks	Pocket Books	0-7434-2191-4	$23.95^?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD	369	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel	Jerry Vanderstelt
Look to Windward	2001-08-00	Iain M. Banks	Orbit	1-84149-059-8	£7.99^?£: UK pound. ISO code: GBP	403	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	novel	Mark Salwowski
Look to Windward	2001-09-00	Iain M. Banks	Pocket Books / SFBC	39527	$11.99^?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD	369	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel	Jerry Vanderstelt
Le sens du vent	2002-09-00	Iain M. Banks	Robert Laffont (Ailleurs et demain)	2-221-09552-9	€22.70^?€: Euro. ISO code: EUR	404	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	novel	Jackie Paternoster
Look to Windward	2002-11-00	Iain M. Banks	Pocket Books	0-7434-2192-2	$6.99^?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD	483	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel	Jerry Vanderstelt
Blicke windwärts	2003-09-00	Iain Banks	Heyne (Heyne Science Fiction & Fantasy #6443)	3-453-87066-2	€8.95^?€: Euro. ISO code: EUR	524	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel	Chris Moore
Look to Windward	2005-00-00	Iain M. Banks	Orbit	1-84149-059-8	£7.99^?£: UK pound. ISO code: GBP	403	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	novel
Le sens du vent	2006-03-00	Iain M. Banks	Le Livre de Poche (Le Livre de Poche - Science Fiction #7283)	2-253-11318-2	€8.00^?€: Euro. ISO code: EUR	512	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel	Jackie Paternoster
Le sens du vent	2006-04-12	Iain M. Banks	Le Livre de Poche	978-2-253-11318-8	€8.90^?€: Euro. ISO code: EUR	505	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel	Manchu
Look To Windward	2010-05-17	Iain M. Banks	Orbit	978-0-7481-1003-2	£5.99^?£: UK pound. ISO code: GBP		ebook^?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.	novel
Look to Windward	2010-07-26	Iain M. Banks	Pocket Books	978-1-4516-2168-6	$23.99^?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD	x+ 369	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	novel
Look to Windward	2012-00-00	Iain M. Banks	Orbit	978-1-84149-059-5	£8.99^?£: UK pound. ISO code: GBP	403	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	novel
Look to Windward	2013-00-00	Iain M. Banks	Orbit	978-1-84149-059-5	£8.99^?£: UK pound. ISO code: GBP	403	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	novel
Look to Windward	2023-11-30	Iain M. Banks	Orbit	978-0-356-52169-5	£10.99^?£: UK pound. ISO code: GBP	416	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	novel
Look to Windward	2023-12-05	Iain M. Banks	Gallery Books	978-1-9821-5606-0	$18.99^?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD	416	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	novel
Look to Windward	date unknown	Iain M. Banks	Pocket Books	978-0-7434-2192-8	$7.99^?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD	483	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel	Jerry Vanderstelt

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Reviews

Review by Paul Kincaid (2000) in Vector 213
Review by Jonathan Strahan (2000) in Locus, #477 October 2000
Review by John Aegard (2000) in Strange Horizons, 18 December 2000
Review by Jeff VanderMeer (2001) in The New York Review of Science Fiction, January 2001
Review by David Mathew (2001) in Interzone, #165 March 2001
Review by Faren Miller (2001) in Locus, #482 March 2001
Review [French] by Jean-Louis Trudel (2001) in Solaris, #138
Review by uncredited (2001) in Vector 219
Review by Justina Robson (2001) in Nova Express, Spring/Summer 2001
Review by Thomas A. Easton [as by Tom Easton] (2002) in Analog Science Fiction and Fact, March 2002
Review [French] by
Irène Langlet^?Irene Langlet
(2002) in Galaxies, #27