[GZG] Banks's "Look to Windward" (was Re: Model Planets and figs)

On Sat, 20 Aug 2005, David Brewer wrote:

> > Oh, and I'm curious as to how it was unfortunate.
>
> The Culture (eg the West) has interfered disastrously and
> unnecessarily with a less liberal, more religious space culture
> plunging it into bloody civil war. Divinely appointed vengeance
> arrives on Masaq' Orbital in the form of a suicidal terrorist
> intending to destroy it. The novel is not unsympathetic to the
> terrorist.

The novel is not unsympathetic because the Culture screwed up big-time,
and many of the Culture citizens in the story are painfully aware of
that.
It's been a while since I've read the book, but I believe
planet-destroying weaponry gets deployed in the civil war that the
Culture
inadvertantly provoked.

Look to Windward also predates 9/11 comfortably - it was published
sometime in 2000 - so any resemblance to real life is accident and
happenstance.

Brian
www.warbard.ca/games.html
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