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Strategic mind-game transforms life and empire.

If you're into intricate strategies and deep, captivating storylines where the stakes are higher than just the game on the board, "The Player of Games" might just grip you. Imagine a game that's so entwined with power and consequence that it pulls you into its coils, making you strategize for survival as the protagonist does. Iain M. Banks crafts a universe where wit and cunning could mean the difference between life and ultimate control. Perfect for fans of high-stakes adventures and richly built worlds.

  • Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire for Traduction (1994)
  • Tähtivaeltaja Award (1995)
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The Player of Games

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ISBN: 9780316005401
Authors: Iain M. Banks
Date of Publication: 2008-03-26
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Science Fiction, Fantasy
Goodreads rating: 4.28
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The Culture—a humanoid/machine symbiotic society—has thrown up many great Game Players. One of the best is Jernau Morat Gurgeh, 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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Strategic mind-game transforms life and empire.

If you're into intricate strategies and deep, captivating storylines where the stakes are higher than just the game on the board, "The Player of Games" might just grip you. Imagine a game that's so entwined with power and consequence that it pulls you into its coils, making you strategize for survival as the protagonist does. Iain M. Banks crafts a universe where wit and cunning could mean the difference between life and ultimate control. Perfect for fans of high-stakes adventures and richly built worlds.

  • Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire for Traduction (1994)
  • Tähtivaeltaja Award (1995)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.