The player of games
In the human-machine symbiotic society called The Culture, there have been many great game players. One, Gurgeh, is a master of every board, computer, and strategy. He travels to the Empire of Azad to try its game, one so complex and like life itself, that the winner becomes emperor. With this game,...
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Orbit,
2008, c1988.
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| Series: | Banks, Iain, 1954-2013. Culture novel ;
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| Summary: | In the human-machine symbiotic society called The Culture, there have been many great game players. One, Gurgeh, is a master of every board, computer, and strategy. He travels to the Empire of Azad to try its game, one so complex and like life itself, that the winner becomes emperor. With this game, he takes on the challenge of his life, and possibly his death. |
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| Item Description: | Excerpt from the author's novel Matter: p. 397-405. Originally published in Great Britain by Macmillan (London) Limited, 1988, and in the U.S. by St. Martin's Press, 1989. |
| Physical Description: | 405 p. ; 21 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9780316005401 0316005401 |
| Author Notes: | Banks came to widespread and controversial public note with the publication of his first novel, The Wasp Factory, in 1984. His first science fiction novel, Consider Phlebas, was published in 1987. He continued to write both mainstream fiction (as Iain Banks) and science fiction (as Iain M. Banks). Banks' mainstream fiction included The Wasp Factory (1984), Walking on Glass (1985), The Bridge (1986), Espedair Street (1987), Canal Dreams (1989), The Crow Road (1992), Complicity (1993), Whit (1995), A Song of Stone (1997), The Business (1999), Dead Air (2002) and The Steep Approach to Garbadale (2007). His final book, The Quarry, was released posthumously on June 20, 2013. Banks died on June 9, 2013 of terminal gall bladder cancer. (Bowker Author Biography) |
