{"product_id":"9781857231793-against-a-dark-background","title":"Against A Dark Background","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA superb standalone novel from the awesome imagination of Iain M. Banks, a master of modern science fiction.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA superb standalone novel from the awesome imagination of Iain M. Banks, a master of modern science fiction. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSharrow 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHer 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePraise for Iain M. Banks:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Epic in scope, ambitious in its ideas and absorbing in its execution' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eIndependent on Sunday\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Banks has created one of the most enduring and endearing visions of the future' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Jam-packed with extraordinary invention' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eScotsman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Compulsive reading' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eSunday Telegraph \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Culture series:\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eConsider Phlebas\u003cbr\u003eThe Player of Games\u003cbr\u003eUse of Weapons\u003cbr\u003eThe State of the Art\u003cbr\u003eExcession\u003cbr\u003eInversions\u003cbr\u003eLook to Windward\u003cbr\u003eMatter\u003cbr\u003eSurface Detail\u003cbr\u003eThe Hydrogen Sonata\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOther books by Iain M. Banks\u003cb\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eAgainst a Dark Background\u003cbr\u003eFeersum Endjinn\u003cbr\u003eThe Algebraist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":31874312962145,"sku":"9781857231793","price":9.15,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_29759992.jpg?v=1726067399","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781857231793-against-a-dark-background","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}