Against A Dark Background by Iain M Banks

Against A Dark Background by Iain M Banks

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 'Compulsive reading' Sunday Telegraph The Culture series: Consider Phlebas The Player of Games Use of Weapons The State of the Art Excession Inversions Look to Windward Matter Surface Detail The Hydrogen Sonata Other books by Iain M. Banks: Against a Dark Background Feersum Endjinn The Algebraist

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 *

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 his generation.

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ISBN 13	9781857231793
ISBN 10	1857231791
Title	Against A Dark Background
Author	Iain M Banks
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Little, Brown Book Group
Year published	1995-01-05
Number of pages	496
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