The Player Of Games

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<p><b>The novels of Iain M. Banks have forever changed the face of modern science fiction. His Culture books combine breathtaking imagination with exceptional storytelling, and have secured his reputation as one of the most extraordinary and influential writers in the genre.</b><br><br><b>'Banks is a phenomenon'</b> William Gibson</p><p>The Culture - a utopian human-machine symbiotic society - has thrown up many expert Game Players, and one of the greatest is Jernau Morat Gurgeh. He is Master of every board, computer and strategy - he is The Player of Games.<br><br>Bored with success, Gurgeh travels to the cruel and incredibly wealthy Empire of Azad to try their infamous game . . . a game so complex, so like life itself, that the winner becomes emperor. Mocked, blackmailed, almost murdered, Gurgeh plays the game, and faces the challenge of his life - and very possibly his death.<br><br> Praise for the Culture series:<br><br> <b>'Epic in scope, ambitious in its ideas and absorbing in its execution' </b><i>Independent on Sunday</i><b><br><br> 'Banks has created one of the most enduring and endearing visions of the future' </b><i>Guardian</i></p><p><b>'Banks's sci-fi, at its best, is staggeringly inventive, beautifully written, dramatic and often very funny. His stories are packed with ideas, warships with minds very much of their own, alien races, charismatic drones and intergalactic politics</b>' <i>New Scientist</i><br><br><b> 'Jam-packed with extraordinary invention' </b><i>Scotsman</i><b><br><br> 'Compulsive reading' </b><i>Sunday Telegraph</i></p><p>The Culture series:<br><i>Consider Phlebas<br>The Player of Games<br>Use of Weapons<br>Excession<br>Inversions<br>Look to Windward<br>Matter<br>Surface Detail<br>The Hydrogen Sonata</i><br><i>The State of the Art</i></p><p><b>Other books by Iain M. Banks:</b><br><i>Against a Dark Background<br>Feersum Endjinn<br>The Algebraist</i></p><p>Also now available: <br><b><i>The Culture: The Drawings</i></b> - an extraordinary

Artikeldetails

EAN

9780356521640

Sprache

Englisch

Einband / Art

Taschenbuch

Maße

195 x 127 x 33 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2024

Verlag / Hersteller

Little, Brown Book Group