The Player of Games

by IainM.Banks (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  1989

  $4.31

  The second Culture novel from the awesome imagination of Iain M. Banks, a modern master of science fiction.

  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 the Culture series:

  'Epic in scope, ambitious in its ideas and absorbing in its execution' Independent on Sunday
  
  'Banks has created one of the most enduring and endearing visions of the future' Guardian
  
  'Jam-packed with extraordinary invention' Scotsman
  
  'Compulsive reading' Sunday Telegraph

  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

  Other books by Iain M. Banks:
  Against a Dark Background
  Feersum Endjinn
  The Algebraist

• Used

  Paperback
  2001

  $57.56

• New

  Paperback
  2008

  $20.11

  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