{"id":17,"date":"2006-07-01T09:36:23","date_gmt":"2006-07-01T08:36:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/?p=17"},"modified":"2010-03-29T07:54:19","modified_gmt":"2010-03-29T06:54:19","slug":"look-to-windward-ian-m-banks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/2006\/07\/look-to-windward-ian-m-banks\/","title":{"rendered":"Look to Windward (Ian M Banks)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Sci-fi, 6\/10 &#8211; June 2006<\/em><\/p>\n<table cellpadding=\"2\">\n<tr>\n<td>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tomfotherby.com\/Images\/BookReviewImages\/lookToWindWard.jpg?w=620&#038;ssl=1\" \/>\n<\/td>\n<td>\nThe Culture usually sounds like such a wonderful utopian place, but this book makes some good arguments that make the Culture out to be far more tarnished and corrupt than I have previously seen, one of them from a Hub mind itself. I found myself not being sure who I wanted to succeed, despite the atrocity that was being planned.\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>Banks seems to put at least one scene of stomach-churning nastiness into each book. In this one, the scene in question comes only a few pages from the end, is very short, but violently demonstrates the revenge of the culture. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sci-fi, 6\/10 &#8211; June 2006 The Culture usually sounds like such a wonderful utopian place, but this book makes some good arguments that make the Culture out to be far more tarnished and corrupt than I have previously seen, one of them from a Hub mind itself. I found myself not being sure who I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[54,53],"class_list":["post-17","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-review","tag-ian-m-banks","tag-sci-fi"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/52"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1569,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions\/1569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}