num_pages: 487
description: Alternate cover edition can be found here and here. 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.
language: English
title: Against a Dark Background
titlecomplete: Against a Dark Background
characters: Sharrow
genres: Science Fiction, Adventure, Novels, Science Fiction Fantasy, Banks, Space, Fiction, Space Opera, Fantasy, Speculative Fiction
ratings_count: 15987
places: Golter
awards: awardedAt: 757411200000
name: Locus Award
category: Best SF Novel
publisher: Orbit