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The Player of Games Iain M. Banks
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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. ThePlayer 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 New York Review of Science Fiction 'Poetic, humorous, baffling, terrifying, sexy - the books of Iain M. Banks are all these things and more' NME |
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