16. Look to Windward

TBR #16.  Look to Windward by Iain M. Banks.

First sentence: “The barges lay on the darkness of the still canal, their lines softened by the snow heaped in pillows and hummocks on their decks.”

This is a Culture novel.  Start with The Player of Games or Use of Weapons.  If you like those, you will like this one.  If not, you probably won’t.

I liked it.

Sadly, I’m running out of Iain M. Banks books–just a couple more hard-to-find SF books, a short story collection, and the massive Algebraist, before I will have to switch to Banks’s mainstream fiction.