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Against a Dark Background

Iain Banks

1993480 pagesabout 7–11 hours
1993
first published
  • 1993Little, Brown Book Group Limited · ENGISBN 9781857231564
  • 1993Orbit · 480 pages · ENGISBN 9781857230314
  • 1994Little, Brown Book Group Limited · ENGISBN 9781857232271
  • 2008Little, Brown Book Group Limited · 512 pages · ENGISBN 9780748109982
  • 2009Orbit · ENGISBN 9780316075947
  • 2009Orbit · 626 pages · ENGISBN 9780316036375
  • 1993Spectra · ENGISBN 9780553292251
  • 1996Orbit · 496 pages · ENGISBN 9781857231793

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. 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.

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