LOOK TO WINDWARD: The New Culture Novel.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[He wrote mainstream fiction under the name Iain Banks and science fiction as Iain M. Banks, including the initial of his adopted middle name Menzies.] FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated,wrap-around colour pictorial artwork,by Mark Salwowski,illustrated dw/dj,with white lettering; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Both head+foot of dw/dj's spine/backstrip minimally bumped with some reciprocal creasing,some inevitable but light superficial scoring indentations to dw/dj - but without affecting the bds beneath.Top+fore-edges lightly aged/tanned - as usual/normal but still bright and clean; contents bright,tight, clean - near pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,would appear unread - apart from my own collation.Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,publisher's original, plain black cloth bds with bright,crisp,stamped fluorescent gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain black eps.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,2-357pp [paginated] includes prologue,16 chapters and an epilogue,plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,an epigram,dedication, and contents list/table. Want more Iain M[enzies] BANKS titles? For similar and other available titles - please search my MODERN FIRSTS,MODERN FIRSTS2,1001 Book You Must Read Before You Die and SIGNED catalogues. It was one of the less glorious incident 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 deaths has reached the Culture's Orbital called Masaq'.For the Hub Mind,overseer of the massive bracelet world,its arrival is particularly poignant.But it may still be eclipsed by events from the Culture's more recent past. When the Chelgrian Ziller,a composer of galactic renown living in self-imposed exile on Masaq',learns that an emissary from his home world is being sent to the Orbital, he fears what he assumes to be the worst: that the Chelgrians want him to return.But the composer is far from being the only thing on the Chelgrian emissary's mind.His mission has another purpose; one so secret he does not know it himself at first. Discovering its nature will take him on a journey into his past and the haunting memories of another terrible war whose legacy threatens to be much more than just an unfortunate diplomatic incident. 'LOOK TO WINDWARD' is Iain M. Banks' most powerful novel to date and an extraordinary work of the imagination.Ferociously intelligent,wildly original and hugely enjoyable,it is a masterpiece of science fiction. Since April 2013,again in March 2015 and in this year too,the UK Post Office has altered it's Pricing in Proportion template,altering its prices, weight allowances,dimensions and lowered its qualifying compensation rates too! So,please contact rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk ,because of the value of this item,for correct,insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!