A 2012 World Book Night selection.
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.
| ISBN: | 9781857231465 |
| Publication date: | 10th August 1989 |
| Author: | Iain M. Banks |
| Publisher: | Orbit an imprint of Little, Brown Book Group |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 320 pages |
| Series: | Culture |
| Primary Genre | Science Fiction |
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A 2012 World Book Night selection.
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.
The Player of Games features in the following genres: Science Fiction, eBooks of the Month, Fiction, Recommendations
The Player of Games is available in Paperback
The Player of Games was written by Iain M. Banks and published by Orbit an imprint of Little, Brown Book Group
The Player of Games has 320 pages
Yes it is part of Culture series
