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Against a Dark Background
[Paperback - 2011]
iain m. banks
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Category: Fiction
Sub-category: Science Fiction
Publisher: Orbit Uk | ISBN: 9781857231793 | Pages: 487
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A superb standalone novel from the awesome imagination of Iain M. Banks, a master of modern science fiction.

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.

Praise for Iain M. Banks:

Epic in scope, ambitious in its ideas and absorbing in its execution Independent on Sunday

Banks has created one of the most enduring and endearing visions of the future Guardian

Jam-packed with extraordinary invention Scotsman

About the Author

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.

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