Author: Iain M. Banks Year: 1988 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Popularity: 7.5 Genres/categories: Science fiction, Award winners, Fantasy, Adventure
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ISBN: 9780316005401 9780316095860 9781857231465 0316005401 1857231465 |
Winner of the Tähtivaeltaja award in 1995. 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
This book is part of the "Culture" series. Here are some other books from this series: Consider PhlebasFirst published 1987 Rank: , Original Star Rating: , Adjustred Star Rating: , Pop Rating:7.9/10 |
ExcessionFirst published 1996 Rank: , Original Star Rating: , Adjustred Star Rating: , Pop Rating:6.3/10 |
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InversionsFirst published 1998 Rank: , Original Star Rating: , Adjustred Star Rating: , Pop Rating:4.7/10 |
Look To WindwardFirst published 2000 Rank: , Original Star Rating: , Adjustred Star Rating: , Pop Rating:5.6/10 |
MatterRank: , Original Star Rating: , Adjustred Star Rating: , Pop Rating:5.2/10 |
The State of the ArtFirst published 1991 Rank: , Original Star Rating: , Adjustred Star Rating: , Pop Rating:4.1/10 |
Surface DetailFirst published 2010 Rank: , Original Star Rating: , Adjustred Star Rating: , Pop Rating:3.8/10 |
Use of WeaponsFirst published 1990 Rank: , Original Star Rating: , Adjustred Star Rating: , Pop Rating:6.9/10 |
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