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Against a Dark Background

Iain M. Banks

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English
Orbit Books
04 January 1994
Sharrow was once the leader of a personality-attuned combat team in one of the sporadic little commercial wars in the civilisation 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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Imprint:   Orbit Books
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Height: 162mm,  Width: 200mm,  Spine: 34mm
Weight:   344g
ISBN:   9781857231793
ISBN 10:   1857231791
Pages:   496
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Author Website:   www.iainbanks.net

Iain Banks came to widespread and controversial public notice with the publication of his first novel, THE WASP FACTORY, in 1984. He has since gained enormous popular and critical acclaim for both his mainstream and his science fiction novels.

Reviews for Against a Dark Background

Imaginatively brilliant. - Daily Mail There is now no British SF wirter to whose work I look forward to with greater keenness. - The Times Banks ain't kidding. He warned you up front that this is a dark novel - Norman Spinrad Few of us have been exposed to a talent so manifest and of such extraordinary breadth - The New York Review of Science Fiction Imaginatively brilliant. - Daily Mail There is now no British SF wirter to whose work I look forward to with greater keenness. - The Times Banks ain't kidding. He warned you up front that this is a dark novel - Norman Spinrad Few of us have been exposed to a talent so manifest and of such extraordinary breadth - The New York Review of Science Fiction


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