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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 1993She 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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