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Amazon
Bored with success, Gurgeh - The Player of Games - travels to the Empire of Azad, cruel and incredibly wealthy, to try their fabulous game. This is a game so complex, so like life itself, that the winner becomes emperor.
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Foyles
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 PhlebasThe Player of GamesUse of WeaponsThe State of the ArtExcessionInversionsLook to WindwardMatterSurface DetailThe Hydrogen SonataOther books by Iain M. Banks:Against a Dark BackgroundFeersum EndjinnThe Algebraist
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TheBookPeople
Since the publication of his first novel in 1984, The Wasp Factory, Iain Banks has gained enormous critical and popular acclaim, so much so that he was named in The Times list of 50 greatest British writers since 1945 in 2008. Writing science fiction under the name Iain M. Banks, The Player of Games tells the story of great game player, Jernau Morat Gurgeh. Bored with his constant success at board, computer and strategy games, Gurgeh travels to the Empire of Azad. While trying to play their complex game where the winner will become emperor, he encounters blackmail and attempted murder. He accepts the game, and with it the challenge of his life - and possibly death.
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Play
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.
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ASDA
Bored with success Gurgeh - The Player of Games - travels to the Empire of Azad cruel and incredibly wealthy to try their fabulous game. This is a game so complex so like life itself that the winner becomes emperor.
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BookDepository
The Player Of Games : Paperback : Little, Brown Book Group : 9781857231465 : : 10 Aug 1989 : The second Culture novel from the awesome imagination of Iain M. Banks, a modern master of science fiction
The Moon Pool
£10.78
