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The player of games / Iain M. Banks.

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Shelf Location	Collection	Volume Ref.	Branch	Status	Due Date
AF BANK	Adult Fiction		Campsie .	. On Loan .	4 Jun 2024

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ISBN	9781857231465 (paperback)
ISBN	1857231465 (paperback)
Name	Banks, Iain, 1954-2013 author.
Title	The player of games / Iain M. Banks.
Published	London, England : Orbit, 1989.
Description	309 pages ; 20 cm.
Notes	Originally published: London : Macmillan, 1988.
Summary	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.
Subjects	Games -- Fiction
	Dystopias -- Fiction
	Emperors -- Fiction
Genre	Science fiction
Series	Culture novel 02.
Links to Related Works	Subject References: Dystopias -- Fiction . Emperors -- Fiction . Games -- Fiction . Science fiction . See Also: Adventure stories . Fantasy fiction . Fiction . Literature and science . Star Trek fiction . Authors: Banks, Iain, 1954-2013 . Series: Culture novel .