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The Player of Games by Banks, Iain M. is a science book available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Player of Games about?
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
Who reads The Player of Games?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Banks, Iain M.
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Published
- 1989
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780356502090
- Category
- science
- Subjects
- Science Fiction, Adventure, High Tech & Hard Sci Fi
- Rating
- 4.26 / 5 (2,018 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
Other editions & translations
- The Player Of Games (1992)
- Use of Weapons (Culture, #3) (1992)
- Use of Weapons (Culture, #3) (1991)
- Iain M. Banks - The Player of Games (1988) v1.0 : Scanned by HugHug (1989)
- The Player of Games (2014)
- Use of Weapons (Culture, #3) (1990)
- The Player of Games 1.0 (1992)
- Culture 04 (2005)
- The Player of Games (2010)
- Iain M. Banks - The Player of Games (1988) v1.0 : Scanned by HugHug (1991)
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