Synopses & Reviews
Review
The New York TimesSet in a far-future, multi-species galaxy rife with hope and despair, this sophisticated space opera deals artfully with the appeal of terrorism and the necessary dangers of a free society....Banks writes with a sophistication that will surprise anyone unfamiliar with modern science fiction.
Review
StarburstBanks' mind-expanding future history is unrivaled for imaginative sweep, startling ideas, and savage but wry sense of humor. One of the very best just got even better.
Review
LocusLook to Windward is a serious novel [yet] levity and humor seep through the cracks... it is elegant, moral, funny. What more could a reader ask?
Table of Contents
Table of Contents Prologue
1" The Light of Ancient Mistakes
2" Winter Storm
3" Infra Dawn
4" Scorched Ground
Airsphere
5" A Very Attractive System
6" Resistance Is Character-Forming
7" Peer Group
8" The Retreat at Cadracet
Dirigible
The Memory of Running
9" Pylon Country
10" The Seastacks of Youmier
11" Absence of Gravitas
12" A Defeat of Echoes
Flight
13" Some Ways of Dying
14" Returning to Leave, Recalling Forgetting
15" A Certain Loss of Control
16" Expiring Light
Space, Time
Closure
Epilogue