+612 9045 4394
 
CHECKOUT
$7.95 Delivery per order to Australia and New Zealand
100% Australian owned
Over a hundred thousand in-stock titles ready to ship
Against a Dark Background - Iain M. Banks

Against a Dark Background

Paperback Published: 4th January 1994
ISBN: 9781857231793
Number Of Pages: 512

Other Formats

Share This Book:

Paperback

Ships in 10 to 15 business days

Earn 38 Qantas Points
on this Book

Sharrow was once the leader of a personality-attuned combat team in one of the sporadic little commercial wars in the civilisation 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.



About the Author

Iain [Menzies] Banks was born in Fife in 1954, and was educated at Stirling University, where he studied English Literature, Philosophy and Psychology. Banks came to widespread and controversial public notice with the publication of his first novel, The Wasp Factory, in 1984.

His first science fiction novel, Consider Phlebas, was published in 1987. He has continued to write both mainstream fiction (as Iain Banks) and science fiction (as Iain M. Banks).He is now acclaimed as one of the most powerful, innovative and exciting writers of his generation: The Guardian has called him "the standard by which the rest of SF is judged". William Gibson, the New York Times-bestselling author of Spook Country describes Banks as a "phenomenon".

Industry Reviews

Imaginatively brilliant. - Daily Mail

There is now no British SF wirter to whose work I look forward to with greater keenness. - The Times

Banks ain't kidding. He warned you up front that this is a dark novel - Norman Spinrad

Few of us have been exposed to a talent so manifest and of such extraordinary breadth - The New York Review of Science Fiction

Imaginatively brilliant. - Daily Mail

There is now no British SF wirter to whose work I look forward to with greater keenness. - The Times

Banks ain't kidding. He warned you up front that this is a dark novel - Norman Spinrad

Few of us have been exposed to a talent so manifest and of such extraordinary breadth - The New York Review of Science Fiction

ISBN: 9781857231793
ISBN-10: 1857231791
Audience: General
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Number Of Pages: 512
Published: 4th January 1994
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
Country of Publication: GB
Dimensions (cm): 19.7 x 12.6  x 3.1
Weight (kg): 0.4
Edition Number: 1

Earn 38 Qantas Points
on this Book

Iain Banks

About the Author


Iain [Menzies] Banks was born in Fife in 1954, and was educated at Stirling University, where he studied English Literature, Philosophy and Psychology.

Banks came to widespread and controversial public notice with the publication of his first novel, The Wasp Factory, in 1984.

His first science fiction novel, Consider Phlebas, was published in 1987. He has continued to write both mainstream fiction (as Iain Banks) and science fiction (as Iain M. Banks).

He is now acclaimed as one of the most powerful, innovative and exciting writers of his generation: The Guardian has called him "the standard by which the rest of SF is judged". William Gibson, the New York Times-bestselling author of Spook Country describes Banks as a "phenomenon".

Iain M. Banks lived in Fife, Scotland until his death in 2013.

Visit Iain Banks's Booktopia Author Page


Other Books by Iain Banks See All

QUICK LINKS