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THE PLAYER OF GAMES - IAIN BANKS KARTONIERT (TB)

The second Culture novel from the awesome imagination of Iain M. Banks  a modern master of
science fiction. 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 the Culture series: 'Epic in scope  ambitious in its ideas and absorbing in its execution'
Independent on Sunday'Banks has created one of the most enduring and endearing visions of the
future' Guardian'Jam-packed with extraordinary invention' Scotsman'Compulsive reading' Sunday
Telegraph The Culture series: Consider PhlebasThe Player of GamesUse of WeaponsThe State of the
ArtExcessionInversionsLook to WindwardMatterSurface DetailThe Hydrogen Sonata Other books by
Iain M. Banks:Against a Dark BackgroundFeersum EndjinnThe Algebraist

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