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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2008, c1988.
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| Series: | Banks, Iain, 1954-2013. Culture novel ;
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| 245 | 1 | 4 | |a The player of games / |c Iain M. Banks. |
| 260 | |a New York : |b Orbit, |c 2008, c1988. | ||
| 300 | |a 405 p. ; |c 21 cm. | ||
| 490 | 1 | |a Culture novel ; |v 2 | |
| 590 | |a Genre sticker: Science fiction. | ||
| 500 | |a Excerpt from the author's novel Matter: p. 397-405. | ||
| 500 | |a Originally published in Great Britain by Macmillan (London) Limited, 1988, and in the U.S. by St. Martin's Press, 1989. | ||
| 520 | |a 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. | ||
| 590 | |a Genre sticker: Science fiction. | ||
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