The Player of Games (Culture Series #2)

The Player of Games (Culture Series #2)

by Iain M. Banks
The Player of Games (Culture Series #2)

The Player of Games (Culture Series #2)

by Iain M. Banks

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Overview

The Culture — a human/machine symbiotic society — has thrown up many great Game Players, and one of the greatest is Gurgeh Jernau Morat Gurgeh. The Player of Games. Master of every board, computer and strategy.

Bored with success, Gurgeh travels to the Empire of Azad, cruel and incredibly wealthy, to try their fabulous game. . . a game so complex, so like life itself, that the winner becomes emperor. Mocked, blackmailed, almost murdered, Gurgeh accepts the game, and with it the challenge of his life — and very possibly his death.

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

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780316005401
Publisher: Orbit
Publication date: 03/26/2008
Series: Culture Series , #2
Edition description: Reprint
Pages: 416
Sales rank: 78,321
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.25(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Iain Banks came to widespread and controversial public notice with the publication of his first novel, The Wasp Factory, in 1984. Consider Phlebas, his first science fiction novel, was published under the name Iain M. Banks in 1987 and began his celebrated ten-book Culture series. He is acclaimed as one of the most powerful, innovative and exciting writers of his generation.
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