Against a Dark Background

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By Iain M. Banks

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From science fiction master Iain M. Banks comes a standalone adventure of one woman on the run in an isolated galaxy. 

Sharrow was once the leader of a personality-attuned combat team in one of the sporadic little commercial wars in the civilization based around the planet Golter. Now she is hunted by the Huhsz, a religious cult which believes that she is the last obstacle before the faith's apotheosis, and her only hope of escape is to find the last of the apocalyptically powerful Lazy Guns before the Huhsz find her.

Her journey through the exotic Golterian system is a destructive and savage odyssey into her past, and that of her family and of the system itself.

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  • "Banks writes space opera on the grand scale: he measures time in eons, space in lightyears, tragedies in gigadeaths."
    Time
  • "Banks is a phenomenon: the wildly successful, fearlessly creative author of brilliant and disturbing non-genre novels, he's equally at home writing pure science fiction of a peculiarly gnarly energy and elegance."
    William Gibson

On Sale
Jul 1, 2009
Page Count
640 pages
Publisher
Orbit
ISBN-13
9780316075947

Iain M. Banks

About the Author

Iain Banks came to widespread and controversial public notice with the publication of his first novel, The Wasp Factory, in 1984. Consider Phlebas, his first science fiction novel, was published under the name Iain M. Banks in 1987 and began his celebrated ten-book Culture series. He is acclaimed as one of the most powerful, innovative and exciting writers of his generation.

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