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The Player of Games

Iain M. Banks

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#2335 of 8,085 books · #626 in Science Fiction

Shortlisted for the BSFA Award for Best Novel (1988) and the Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (1989).

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 - a very possibly his death.

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Publisher
Macmillan
ISBN-13
9780356521640
Topics
Games and strategyUtopian society vs empirePower and politics

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