Look to Windward is a science fiction novel by Iain M. Banks and the sixth published to feature The Culture. In some respects it serves as a sequel to the first Culture novel, Consider Phlebas: both titles are taken from the same sentence of T.S. Eliot's poem, The Waste Land.

This book deals with the themes of exile, (rather prophetically considering this book was written before Sep 11 and the Iraq War) religious justification of mass violence against humanity/sentience and naturally the mores associated with life within a technologically and energically unlimited utopian communism / anarchy. For those familiar with the universe of The Culture, it is also notable in that it deals (in a limited fashion) with the Sublimed. It has been favourably reviewed by many contemporary literary journals, and the author is considered to be one of the prime motivators for the return to the mainstream of contemporary UK fiction and science fiction.