num_pages: 634
description: She came from one of the more disreputable aristocratic families.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. On an island with a glass shore--relic of some even more ancient conflict--she discovers she's to be hunted by the Huhsz, a religious cult which believes she's the last obstacle before their faith's apotheosis. She has to run, knowing her only hope of finally escaping the Huhsz is to find the last of the ancient, apocalyptically powerful but seemingly cursed Lazy Guns. But that's just the first as well as the final step on a search that takes her on an odyssey thru the exotic Golterian system &amp; results in both a trail of destruction &amp; a journey into her own past, as well as that of her family &amp; the system itself; a journey that changes everything. Note: An epilog by Iain M. Banks written 1994 can be found on http://www.culturelist.org/cdr/articl...
language: English
title: Against a Dark Background
titlecomplete: Against a Dark Background
characters: Sharrow
genres: Fiction, Science Fiction, Adventure, Speculative Fiction, Space Opera, Banks, Science Fiction Fantasy, Space, Novels, Fantasy
ratings_count: 15988
places: Golter
awards: awardedAt: 757411200000
name: Locus Award
category: Best SF Novel
publisher: Orbit Books (NY/London)