The Player of Games

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416 pages

English language

Published Nov. 1, 2008

ISBN:
978-0-316-00540-1
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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.

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reviewed The Player of Games by Iain M. Banks

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A lot of people recommend player of games as a good entry point to The Culture books. It's enjoyable and shows both the Culture and its "interesting" side off very well. The climactic game makes more sense if you've read "Consider Phlebas". Hopefully the Folio Society will publish the rest of the culture novels 

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