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Against a Dark Background by Iain M. Banks is a science book available to read on EtoBox.
What is Against a Dark Background about?
From Library JournalOn the run from a cult of intergalactic religious fanatics who want her death, the Lady Sharrow emerges from retirement to seek out a powerful artifact that may save her life--the legendary Lady Gun, a weapon that kills by altering the reality around it. The author of Consider Phlebas ( LJ 5/15/88) and The Player of Games ( LJ 2/15/89) has constructed a richly hued, far-future tapestry for his latest space adventure. Sophisticated prose, complex characters, and an unbridled imagination combine in this tale of high drama and intrigue. A good choice for most libraries.Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc. Product DescriptionSharrow 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 syst
Who reads Against a Dark Background?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Iain M. Banks
- Publisher
- Orbit
- Published
- 2009
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781616202781
- Category
- science
- Subjects
- Adventure, Fiction, History
- Rating
- 3.87 / 5 (679 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
Other editions & translations
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- The Aleppo Codex: The True Story of Obsession, Faith, and the International Pursuit of an Ancient Bible (2012)
- The Divine Conspiracy: Rediscovering Our Hidden Life in God (2009)
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