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Against a Dark Background
Iain M. Banks
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Description for Against a Dark Background
Paperback. Sharrow was once a warrior-spy and leader of a combat team. Living in a state of semi-retirement, she suddenly found herself the target of the Huhsz, a religious cult, and realised that she had to find and reform her old team if she had any hope of survival. By the author of the "Culture" sequence. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: FL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 127 x 32. Weight in Grams: 344.
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Orbit
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Condition
New
Weight
341 g
Number of Pages
496
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781857231793
SKU
V9781857231793
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99-50
About Iain M. Banks
Iain Banks (1954-2013) 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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more