Two and a half millennia ago, the artifact appeared in a remote corner of space, beside a trillion-year-old dying sun from a different universe. It was a perfect black-body sphere, and it did nothing. Then it disappeared. Now it is back. 'Banks is a phenomenon ... wildly successful, fearlessly creative' William Gibson 'Thrilling, affecting and comic ... probably the finest science fiction he has written to date' New Scientist 'Banks has rewritten the libretto for the whole space-opera genre' The Times
I. M. Banks Poradie kníh
Iain M. Banks, známy aj ako Iain Banks, bol škótsky autor, ktorého diela skúmali hlboké témy ľudskej spoločnosti a budúcnosti. Pod pseudonymom Iain M. Banks písal rozsiahle a ambiciózne sci-fi diela, často zasadené do prepracovaného vesmíru s komplexnými politickými a filozofickými podtónmi. Jeho štýl sa vyznačoval bystrým humorom, ostrou spoločenskou kritikou a fascináciou technologickým pokrokom a jeho vplyvom na ľudstvo. Jeho písanie často odrážalo jeho ľavicové presvedčenie a záujem o utopické a anarchistické spoločenské systémy.


- 2007
- 2006
It was one of the less glorious incidents 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 mistakes has reached the Culture Orbital, Masaq'. The light from the second may not. 'Confirms Banks as the standard by which the rest of SF is judged' GUARDIAN 'In terms of sheer storytelling prowess and verve, Look to Windward is a work of genius' SFX 'A great book' NEW SCIENTIST