ENGLISH

The Player of Games

By Iain M. Banks

Book information

Publisher
Orbit
Year
2008
ISBN
0316005401, 9780316005401
Open Library ID
OL10426057M
Language
english
Format
LIT
Filesize
326 kB (334075 bytes)
Edition
First Thus
Pages
416\0
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

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.Praise for Iain M. Banks:"Poetic, humorous, baffling, terrifying, sexy -- the books of Iain M. Banks are all these things and more" -- NME"An exquisitely riotous tour de force of the imagination which writes its own rules simply for the pleasure of breaking them." -- Time Out

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