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Against a Dark Background
- Narrated by: Peter Kenny
- Length: 18 hrs and 19 mins
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Publisher's Summary
The novels of Iain M. Banks have forever changed the face of modern science fiction. With breathtaking imagination and extraordinary storytelling, they have secured his reputation as one of the most extraordinary and influential writers in the genre.
Lady Sharrow was once the fearless leader of a combat team in one of the sporadic little commercial wars in the vicinity of the planet Golter. Now she is hunted by the Huhsz - a religious cult hellbent on assassinating her - and her only hope of escape is to find the last of the apocalyptically powerful Lazy Guns before the Huhsz track her down.
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.
Books by Iain M. Banks:
Consider Phlebas
The Player of Games
Use of Weapons
Excession
Inversions
Look to Windward
Matter
Surface Detail
The Hydrogen Sonata
The State of the Art
Against a Dark Background
Feersum Endjinn
The Algebraist
What the critics say
"Imaginatively brilliant." (Daily Mail)
"Few of us have been exposed to a talent so manifest and of such extraordinary breadth." (The New York Review of Science Fiction)
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- DB@Canada
- 2018-06-13
Masterful
Iain M. Banks is the master of Space Opera. If you have not experienced his writing skill, this could be your place to start. Then move on to the pure Culture novels (this one is a tangential offshoot). The narrator lends the story the correct pace and nuance. Great performance.
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