Against A Dark Background: Epilogue

Iain Banks is one of my favorite SF authors. One of his books, Against A Dark Background, apparently has an epilogue that was not published in my copy of the book. I don't recommend reading it if you haven't read the book--it doesn't stand on its own and it contains spoilers--but I do recommend the book, and Iain Banks' SF in general. (He's also written some non-science-fiction, but I haven't read any of it yet.)