The release date for the English version of 'Against a Dark Background' by
Iain M. Banks is Jan 1993. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
Her family was among the less respectable members of the nobility.
In one of the few little commercial battles in the Golter-centered society, Sharrow led a personality-matched fighting force. She finds herself the target of a religious cult known as the Huhsz, who think she is the last barrier standing in the way of their faith's apotheosis, while on an island with a glass coastline that is a remnant of an even older struggle. She needs to go because she knows that finding the last of the legendary, terrifyingly strong, but apparently cursed Lazy Guns is her only chance of ever making it out of the Huhsz's grasp. However, it is just the beginning and the end of a quest that sends her on an adventure across the strange Golterian system, leading her to follow a path of devastation and go on a voyage into her own history, her family's past, and the system itself—a journey that alters everything.