As the story opens, Flinx is at loose ends, looking for peace and quiet on a backwater world.

"How did you ever find her on a little backwater world like this?"

Rejoicing, considered a backwater world, got the scrapings from the bottom of the barrel.

Why should the army invade a backwater world three hundred light years from the nearest combat area?

After committing various war crimes, Kane had disappeared three years earlier only to surface on a backwater world.

Crossing light-years of space to this backwater world wasn't necessary.

I'm a minor scholar from a small college on a backwater world.

He had learned how much all backwater worlds were the same.

Or at least, how much the same were all the backwater worlds a trader might be interested in.

What have they got to fear from a little girl on a backwater ethnic world?