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Synopsis
A superb standalone novel from the awesome imagination of Iain M. Banks, a master of modern science fiction.
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.
Praise for Iain M. Banks:
'Epic in scope, ambitious in its ideas and absorbing in its execution' Independent on Sunday
'Banks has created one of the most enduring and endearing visions of the future' Guardian
'Jam-packed with extraordinary invention' Scotsman
'Compulsive reading' Sunday Telegraph
The Culture series:
Consider Phlebas
The Player of Games
Use of Weapons
The State of the Art
Excession
Inversions
Look to Windward
Matter
Surface Detail
The Hydrogen Sonata
Other books by Iain M. Banks:
Against a Dark Background
Feersum Endjinn
The Algebraist
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Review
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)
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Praise for Iain M. Banks
‘There is now no British SF writer to whose work I look forward to with such keenness’ THE TIMES
‘Few of us have been exposed to a talent so manifest and of such extraordinary breadth’ THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF SCIENCE FICTION
‘Poetic, humorous, baffling, terrifying, sexy - the books of Iain M. Banks are all these things and more’ NME
‘Banks is a phenomenon: the wildly successful, fearlessly creative author of brilliant and disturbing non-genre novels, he’s equally at home writing pure science fiction of a peculiarly gnarly energy and elegance’ WILLIAM GIBSON
Also by Iain M. Banks
Consider Phlebas The Player of Games Use of Weapons The State of the Art Feersum Endjinn Excession Inversions Look to Windward
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- PublisherOrbit
- Publication date1995
- ISBN 10 1857231791
- ISBN 13 9781857231793
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages496
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