Culture series · book 2
The player of games
About this book
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 - a very possibly his death.
Culture series · 10 books
In publication order- 1 Consider Phlebas 1987
- 2 The Player of Games 1988 This book
- 3 Use of Weapons 1990
- 4 The State of the Art 1989
Subjects
- accessible book
- computer games
- fiction
- in library
- long now manual for civilization
- overdrive
- protected daisy
- science fiction
- science fiction & fantasy