A high-ranked Chelgrian priest offers Quilan the chance to avenge the Chelgrians who died by taking part in a suicide mission to strike back at the Culture. Major Quilan, a Chelgrian, has lost the will to live after the death of his wife, killed during the Chelgrian civil war that resulted from the Culture's interference. The Chelgrians are a race of centaur-like cat aliens with three hind-limbs and a humanoid catlike torso. Consider Phlebas took its name from the following line in the poem and dealt with the events of the Idiran-Culture War Look to Windward deals with the results of the war on those who lived through it.
Look to Windward is loosely a sequel to Consider Phlebas, Banks's first published Culture novel.
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