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Against a dark background by Iain M. Banks 1993

Against a dark background by Iain M. Banks 1993

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Publication Year: 1993

Type: Novel

Format: Paperback

Language: English

Book Title: Against a dark background

Author: Iain M. Banks

Narrative Type: Fiction

Genre: Science Fiction

Original Language: English

Publisher: Orbit

Country/Region of Manufacture: United Kingdom

Intended Audience: Young Adults,Adults

Against a dark background by Iain M. Banks 1993

She came from one of the more disreputable aristocratic families.

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. On an island with a glass shore - relic of some even more ancient conflict - she discovers she is to be hunted by the Huhsz, a religious cult which believes she is the last obstacle before their faith's apotheosis. She has to run, knowing her only hope of finally escaping the Huhsz is to find the last of the ancient, apocalyptically powerful but seemingly cursed Lazy Guns. But that is just the first as well as the final step on a search that takes her on an odyssey through the exotic Golterian system and results in both a trail of destruction and a journey into her own past, as well as that of her family and the system itself; a journey that changes everything.
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