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Title: The Player of Games Condition: New ISBN-10: 0316005401 EAN: 9780316005401 ISBN: 9780316005401 Publisher: Little, Brown & Company Format: Paperback Release Date: 26/03/2008 Description: 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.Praise for Iain M. Banks:"Poetic, humorous, baffling, terrifying, sexy -- the books of Iain M. Banks are all these things and more" -- NME"An exquisitely riotous tour de force of the imagination which writes its own rules simply for the pleasure of breaking them." -- Time Out Language: English Country/Region of Manufacture: US Item Height: 210mm Item Length: 140mm Item Width: 34mm Item Weight: 370g Genre: Fiction Topic: Crime Thrillers & Mystery, Science Fiction Author: Iain M Banks Release Year: 2008
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