Against a Dark Background by Iain Banks
Posted on June 3rd, 2007 by admin
wfzimmerman’s review: “A standalone novel by Banks describing the tragic plight of Thrale, a lonely inhabited planet surrounded by tens of millions of light-years of "dark background," with no neighbors. I never think that I’ve fully understood this book — there are a lot of unexplained subtleties — but I think it is one of the most profound meditations I’ve ever read on the human condition. Here we are, on our own lonely planet, torn by war and suffering, against a dark background.”
Spectra (1993), Mass Market Paperback
tags: collecting author’s complete works
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