Look to Windward
First edition | |
| Author | Iain M. Banks |
|---|---|
| Audio read by | Peter Kenny |
| Cover artist | Mark Salwowski |
| Language | English |
| Series | The Culture |
| Genre | Science fiction |
| Publisher | Orbit Books |
Publication date | 2000 |
| Publication place | Scotland |
| Media type | Print (Hardback & Paperback) |
| Pages | 357 |
| ISBN | 1-85723-981-4 |
| OCLC | 43500306 |
| Preceded by | Inversions |
| Followed by | Matter |
Look to Windward is a science fiction novel by Scottish writer Iain M. Banks, first published in 2000. It is Banks' sixth published novel to feature the Culture. The book's dedication reads: "For the Gulf War Veterans". The novel takes its title from a line in T. S. Eliot's poem The Waste Land:
O you who turn the wheel and look to windward,
Consider Phlebas, who was once handsome and tall as you.
— T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land, IV. Death by Water
Look to Windward is loosely a sequel to Consider Phlebas, Banks's first published Culture novel. Consider Phlebas took its name from the following line in the poem and dealt with the events of the Idiran-Culture War; Look to Windward deals with the results of the war on those who lived through it.