The Player of Games

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.

Author: Banks Iain M.

ISBN: 1857231465

Year of publication: 1988

Collection: Culture

Genre: Space fantasy

Number of pages: 374

Reading time: 6 h. 14 min.

Formats: FB2, EPUB, PDF

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