It may not be the most exciting Culture novel (that will probably be Use of Weapons) or the funniest (that would be Against A Dark Background), but if it had tried to be that, it wouldn't have been what it is. And in that sense it is the ultimate Culture novel as it tells us as much about the Culture as possible. And it is accurate, because Look to Windward tells us as much about the Culture as it is possible to tell in three hundred and fifty pages while still keeping a story flowing. It can't get any shorter than that and still hold meaning or any degree of accuracy. So let me sum up Look to Windward in one sentence: Look to Windward is the ultimate Culture novel. I know that I've used this excuse before, but that doesn't make it less true. Sometimes a book is just so good, that it becomes hard to review properly, without reverting to long sentences overflowing with superlatives (which quickly becomes boring). To think that it has been nearly a year since I read any Banks last – not strange that I had to consume this one over a single weekend.
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