• Look to Windward is a science fiction novel by Scottish writer Iain M. Banks, first published in 2000. It is Banks' sixth published novel to feature the...
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  • that has included a weatherman at WRAL in North Carolina providing hints to release dates and album singles. On 18 February 2025, Sleep Token created...
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  • themselves willing to intervene, sometimes forcefully, in other civilizations to make them more Culture-like. Much of Look to Windward is a commentary on...
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  • The Culture (category Articles that need to differentiate between fact and fiction from May 2023)
    Mind to break this Taboo, the GCU Grey Area seen in Excession, is largely ostracized and shunned by other Minds as a result. In Look to Windward an example...
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  • Look up Windward Islands in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Windward Islands are the southern islands of the Lesser Antilles. Windward Islands may also...
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  • Look up windward, alee, downwind, or upwind in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Windward is the direction upwind from the point of reference, alternatively...
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  • in T. S. Eliot's poem The Waste Land. A subsequent Culture novel, Look to Windward (2000), whose title comes from the previous line of the same poem,...
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    construction in 2018. This refers to the ship Experiencing A Significant Gravitas Shortfall, first mentioned in Look to Windward. The Red Virgin and the Vision...
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  • Burgess, Face and Refugee Boy by Benjamin Zephaniah, Consider Phlebas, Look To Windward, Player of Games, Surface Detail, The Wasp Factory, and Transition...
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    Scottish Albums Chart. This was followed two years later by Take Me Back to Eden, which debuted at number three in the UK and number 16 on the US Billboard...
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  • according to Banks. The events occur six to eight hundred years after the "Chel Debacle", depicted in the earlier novel Look to Windward which is set...
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    the space-faring utopian civilisation The Culture in Banks' novel Look to Windward, and the vast vacuum dirigible Equatorial 353 is a pivotal location...
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  • Planet for Texans) The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet, by Becky Chambers Look to Windward by Iain M. Banks Looking Backward by Edward Bellamy Lord...
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  • acknowledged, some felt that this was less satisfying, in contrast to Look to Windward, his previous book (under the Iain M Banks guise). Like The Business...
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  • Look up leeward in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Leeward is the opposite of Windward. Leeward may also refer to: Leeward Islands (disambiguation) Leeward...
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  • and intervention organisation. Anaplian decides to return to Sursamen, originally to pay her respects to her dead father and presumed-dead brother. (Initial...
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  • 1:08 9. "Island Sun" 2:28 10. "Chalk Maple" 1:04 11. "Wartime Exception Law 205" 0:29 12. "Ketsui" 1:00 13. "Longhena" 1:25 14. "Look to Windward" 3:11...
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  • Infinite Variety Trezza Azzopardi – The Hiding Place Iain M. Banks – Look to Windward Russell Banks – The Angel on the Roof Matt Beaumont – e Maeve Binchy...
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  • "Sasha", the girlfriend of Jess Mariano's estranged father as part of the Windward Circle backdoor pilot which did not go forward. Fenn did not return as...
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  • identified only as "Master", to whom much of the account is addressed. Oelph is the assistant to Vosill, the personal doctor to King Quience of Haspidus—and...
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  • literature as the title for their works. This may be done as a conscious allusion to the themes of the older work or simply because the phrase seems memorable...
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  • by far the most popular format of home video. Iain M. Banks' novel Look to Windward. Lauren Child's children's book I Will Not Ever Never Eat a Tomato...
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    initially also covered Trinidad, British Guiana, the Leeward Islands and the Windward Islands. It was later divided on the retirement in 1841/2 of the first...
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    formed Windward Islands Airways (Winair) in 1961, which offered service to Saba. Regular air service to Saba did not begin immediately due to the need...
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  • nonprofits about where to give money and serves as the hub of a politically liberal "dark money" network in the United States. The Windward Fund serves as the...
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    divorced when she was 12 years old. After moving to the United States at the age of 16, Paquin attended Windward School, where she graduated in 2000. Paquin...
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  • in 1739 and the Windward Maroons in 1740, which required them to support the institution of slavery. The importance of the Maroons to the colonial authorities...
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    to the windward side of solid objects, particularly those with a likeness to that of tree branches and wires. Soft rime is similar in appearance to hoar...
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    are lower than in windward locations. Dry weather is prevalent, except for sporadic showers that drift over the mountains to windward and during short-duration...
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  • SSL, uses port 8834 ... Vaughan-Nichols, Steven J. (2009-06-18). "First look: Opera Unite alpha lets you share files – but is it safe?". Networking. Computerworld...
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