Look to Windward (51 page)
They tell me that the Hub and Quilan went
together into total oblivion, with no back-ups, no copies, no mind-states, no souls left behind.
I suppose it must have been what they both wanted. In the case of the Major, I believe I can understand, and I still feel deeply sorry for him and the effects of a loss he could neither mourn away nor stand, thoughâlike a lot of people, I thinkâI find it hard to understand how something as fabulously complicated and comprehensively able intellectually as a Mind might also want to destroy itself.
Life never ceases to surprise.
Also by Iain M. Banks
CONSIDER PHLEBAS
THE PLAYER OF GAMES
USE OF WEAPONS
THE STATE OF THE ART
AGAINST A DARK BACKGROUND
FEERSUM ENDJINN
EXCESSION
INVERSIONS
Also by Iain Banks
THE WASP FACTORY
WALKING ON GLASS
THE BRIDGE
ESPEDAIR STREET
CANAL DREAMS
THE CROW ROAD
COMPLICITY
WHIT
A SONG OF STONE
THE BUSINESS
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Copyright © 2000 by Iain M. Banks
Quotation from “The Waste Land” taken from
Collected Poems
1909-1962 by T. S.
Eliot. Reprinted by permission of Faber and Faber Ltd.
Originally published in Great Britain in 2000 by Orbit
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Banks, Iain.
      Look to windward / Iain M. Banks.
        p. cm.
        ISBN: 978-1-4516-2168-6
eISBN-13 : 978-1-43910-849-9
      I. Title.
PR6052.A485 L66 2001
823'.914âdc21
2001021833
First Pocket Books hardcover printing August 2001
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