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 Culture. The book's dedication reads: "For the Gulf War Veterans".The novel takes its title from a line in T. S. Eliot's poem The Waste Land: O you who turn the wheel and look to windward,Consider Phlebas, who was once handsome and tall as you. — T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land, IV. Death by Water