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Against a Dark BackgroundIain Banks

Against a Dark Background

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13 editions · 2 languages
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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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Editions

13 editions · 2 languages
  • Ebook · English · 2009
    Orbit · 9780316075947
  • Paperback · English · 1996
    Orbit · 496 pages · 9781857231793
  • Paperback · English · 1994
    ORBIT · 488 pages · 9781857231854
  • Paperback · English · 1993
    Orbit · 625 pages · 9780316133395
  • Hardcover · English · 1993
    Orbit · 480 pages · 9781857230314
  • Paperback · English · 1993
    Spectra · 9780553292251
FictionScience FictionScience Fiction & FantasyFiction, science fiction, generalScience fictionWomen soldiersAssassinsFiction, science fiction, space opera