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      The Player of Games

      by Iain M. Banks
      Published
      Feb 1989
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      Space Opera Space Opera
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      399
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      The Culture Book 2

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      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.

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      Book 2
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      Speculative Fiction

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      Space Opera

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      Aliens

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      Jan 1990 HarperCollins ISBN 0061000981
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