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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 - a very possibly his death.
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Contemporary, classical in form, richly built and grave.
- contemporarynostalgic
- classical in formformally daring
- sparerichly built
- gravecomic
- character-ledplot-driven
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- Author
- Iain Banks
- First published
- 1988
- Pages
- 320
- Publisher
- Macmillan, W.F. Howes, Heyne Verlag
- Editions
- 23
- Language
- English, French, German
- ISBN
- 9787513341240
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Iain Banks (16 February 1954 – 9 June 2013) was a Scottish author. He wrote mainstream fiction under the name Iain Banks, and science fiction as Iain M. Banks, including the initial of his adopted middle name Menzies. In 2008, The Times named Banks in their list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945". Source: Wikipedia
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